AIRSHIP RIOO.
EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHT. TO CANADA AND BACK. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 18. Arrangements are well advanced for the experimental flight of the Air Ministry’s airship RIOO to Canada and back. The date of her departure has not been lixed, but an announcement is expected to be made within the next few days after the airship has passed satisfactorily a further test. Flight-Commander Atherstone, flrsi officer of the sister airship RlOl, sailed yesterday for Canada with 10 engineers and riggers and a wireless operator to form a relief crew for RIOO at Montreal.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18024, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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