BRITISH AIRSHIPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20603, 30 June 1930, Page 9

BRITISH AIRSHIPS.

RlOl OVER LONDON.; COMING VISIT TO INDIA, (Received June 29, 5.13 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY, June 2S« Airship RlOl, which took part in a rieV hearsal yesterday at Hendon for to-day's pageant, left her mooring irast at Cardington yesterday morning and . before proceeding to Hendon made a flight over the home counties. Her manosuvres over London attracted inuch attention. Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, stated at tho Imperial Press Conference to-day that airship RIOQ. would leave for Montreal in the last few days of July and that he would himself mako the journey in the airship RlOl to India in September. Lord Thomson said he could not see that the flight across the Atlantic from east to west by aeroplane would be a commercial proposition. Experts were now in Greenland considering another route and he believed their investigations would result in something practical within the nest eighteen 'months or two years. _ s What a factor that would be in linking the Old World with the New, when they would be able to go from Croydon to Chicago, through Canada, in three or .four days.