AIRPLANES AS “FEEDERS”
AIRSHIPS FOR LONG ROUTES IMPERIAL AIR SCHEME. Reuter's Telegram. OTTAWA, March 23. Gigantic airships, lines encircling the globe, with fast aeroplanes feeding them, was tho scheme outlined by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Braucker, Director of Civil Aviation in tho British Air Ministry, in an address to the Empire Club at Toronto. He declared that Britain was developing two gigantic airships, with a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet, for inservice between India and London, which would eventually include Australia. This in turn would bring Canada within 2o or 30 hours of England. The new ship would carry 100 passengers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12404, 25 March 1926, Page 6
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101AIRPLANES AS “FEEDERS” New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12404, 25 March 1926, Page 6
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