AIRSHIPS IN COMMERCE
CHANGES IN BRITISH MODEL. GREAT EXPERIMENT PLANNED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 28. The aeronautical correspondent of the Times says that the major modification in airship RlOl involves cutting the vessel in halves in order to insert an additional bag containing a gas bag of 500,000 feet capacity. This is estimated to increase the ship’s lift by at least six tons. Her length will be 800 feet, easily the greatest yet built, and the total gas capacity 5,500,000 cubic feet. With other modifications the total increase of lifting capacity is calculated to reach 15 tons. While it would be wrong thus to expect RlOl to become a commercial proposition, it would be equally wrong to assume that airships generally are not commercially practicable because RlOl was designed on cnfnfv li-iAc ne pyi. experiment-
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1929, Page 13
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