FRUSTRATED HOPES
RlOl CRUISE POSTPONED.
SOME FACETIOUS COMMENT,
(Received B.HO a-m.) LONDON, November 1(1. Twenty Poors and 80 members of Cie House of Commons, including four women, who intended to take a flight !n RICH, were deeply disappointed on isssembling in pouring rain in Palace Yard, Wosminster, for conveyance to Cardington, to learn from an Air Ministry official that the .weather coalitions were too unfavourable to permit the flight. Miss Ellen Wilkinson looked very 1 -restfallen. She said she had flown in a gale before and there were only a few drops of rain today. Mr Jack Hayes (Labour, Edge Hill)said he was disappointed to miss a chance of getting “near heaven. ’’ Another member remarked: “There is one consolation: if We had all gone up ami anything had happened there would have ibeen a general election in record ■time.*’
UNEXPECTED TAKE-OFF. TRIALS CONTINUED. '■ • (Received 1.7 p.m.) LONDON, November 17. In continuation of previous trial flights, airship RlOl left the mooring mast at Cardington at 30.;t(X this morning. The flight was undertaken unexpectedly and is the longest yet made. It 101 was seen in Scotland at nightfall.
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Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 5
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