NEW SOVIET AIRSHIP
FORMER ITALIAN AIR CHIEF IN COMMAND (Published in The Times.) RIGA, Aug. 9.—General Nobile, wht formerly held a high command in the Italian Air Force, and who is new Deputy-Chief oi' Soviet Airship Con. struction, commands the new Soviet airship, U.S.S.It. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), which was built under his supervision at. Leningrad. on her iU'st flight to Moscow. The airship will carry 12 persons and one ton of. freight. It lias a radius of 1250 miles.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 August 1932, Page 5
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