CONQUEST OF THE AIR.
SERVICES TO INDIA AND AUSTRALIA. per press association —copyright LONDON, July 22. Burney airships will be employed in services to India and Australia. Huge machines, of a new pattern, capable of carrying 150 passengers at an average speed of 80 miles, will be able to' sake a continuous flight of more than five days. The first sjiould be built within eight months. The first stage will 'be to India, bringing it within 68 hours of I,onion, and shortening the delivery of Australian mails by ten days. Egypt will be reached in 31 hours. The machines will have a capacity of 5.000,000 cubic feet, and length 760 feet. There will bo single berth sleeping cabins for all passengers, each with a yo">('."nte entrance from the keel .-,v-way. The i -donn w”1 riwnendate 60 and the dining room half the romplemont.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 24 July 1923, Page 2
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