AIRSHIPS OF THE FUTURE.
REVOLUTION TN TRAVEL. MORE SAFETY: GREATER SPEED. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received Fob. 26. 3 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. A revolution in air travel, by which airships in future will travel more safely and faster, and can ho moored to floating bases, is foreshadowed in an authoritative statement regarding a now five million cubic feet airship being constructed bv the Airship Guarantee Company for the Imperial airship route. The crew and passengers will be accommodated in tho body of tlit*, craft, instead of outside tho cars, thus enabling a very material increase in speed and a considerable increase in flight range, so that it- will ho possible to fly from England to Bagdad in two days, to Colombo in four, to Fremantle in six and a-half, and lo Auckland in nine days.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 9
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134AIRSHIPS OF THE FUTURE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 9
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