AIRSHIP SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA LIKELY.
MAY DISPLACE ’PLANES ON LONG JOURNEYS. The possibility of an airship service between England and Australia being in operation in the course of the next four or five years was mentioned today by Captain J. D. Paul, who is chairman of directors of Boulton and Paul, Ltd., of England, the constructors of the giant British dirigible, RlOl. Captain Paul spent a few hours in Christchurch to-day on his way to Dunedin. He expressed great faith in airships and he holds the view that they will eventually displace aeroplanes on long journeys. The firm which Captain Boulton directs is soon to produce a light aeroplane which will be sold in New Zealand at a cost of about £650. It will have a 40 horse-power engine and will have a top speed of 90 miles an hour and cruising speed of 70.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19035, 2 April 1930, Page 10
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