AVIATION.
FIRE-PROOF PETROL TANK. A SUCCESSFUL TRIAL. Press Association—By Telegraph—-Copyright. LONDON, May 21. (Received May 23, at 5.5 p.m.) Airship R33 flew from Selby to London and back to-night as a trial for the American crew who will take R3B to America. They carried a Sopwith "camel" aeroplane with motors working at full speed, and released it at fifteen hundred feet to test the petrol tank which has been dosigned to prevent fire after crashing. <The experiment was successful.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17943, 24 May 1920, Page 5
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