NO MORE AIRSHIPS TILL RlOl IS PROVED UP TO SPECIFICATIONS
SIR SAMUEL HOARE STATES ATTITUDE. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received May 17. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 16, Asked whether his attention had been called to the proposal to build a fleet of airships of 6,750,000 cubic feet capacity for the trans-Atlantic mail service, Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister, said that the whole object of the experiments in connection with airships was to carry cut exhaustive tests before incurring any further expenditure, and no public money would, therefore, be spent on airship development projects until RlOl had carried out extensive trials and satisfied all the specification conditions—British Official Wireless.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 1
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109NO MORE AIRSHIPS TILL R101 IS PROVED UP TO SPECIFICATIONS Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 1
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