BRITAIN’S BIG AIRSHIP
PREPARING FOR ATLANTIC FLIGHT. (United Press Association —By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received July 29, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. The task of inflating the giant 100passenger Burney-Rolls Royce airship, with 5,000,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas begins at Howden, Yorkshire, today. The task is expected to occupy a month, after which the Air Ministry expects to conduct shed tests. The airship’s preliminary flights will then be made over Britain, prior to the Atlantic flight to Canada.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18330, 30 July 1929, Page 9
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