MAIDEN FLIGHT OF R100
SECOND BRITISH AIRSHIP . GREAT SATISFACTION GIVEN SPEED AND CONTROL GOOD British Wireless. * Rugby, Dec. 17. The airship Rlflfi, after the six-hour maiden flight yesterday, left the mooring mast at Cardington at 10 o’clock this morning and after circling over Bedford set her course for London. The impression of the experts on board -yesterday- was- most favourable. Naturally the engines.-were not run at full power on the first flight, but the speeds the airship attained and the response to the controls gave great satisfaction. The-crew-and passengers numbered GO. » After to-day’s flight the airship returned to the mast just before 3 o’clock. Though the' course was set towards London there was no intention of visiting the metropolis. Owing to mist and bad visibility the airship’ escaped observation at most of the places, passed over. The commander kept the Air Ministry informed of his movements by wireless.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1929, Page 11
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