ALL-ENGLISH DIRIGIBLE.
. CARDIFF TO LONDON FLIGHT. By Telcenipn— Press Association— Copyright Londoni August 7. ' Mr. Willows, an aviator, started from Cardiff, Wales, at 8 o'clock in the evening for Crystal Palace.. He flew over the palace, alighting at Dartford, 14 miles E.S.E. of London Bridge, at 6.80 o'clock in the morning. Tho, distance between Cardiff an<l Dartford, as the crow flies, is about 145 miles. (Rec. Aug. 8, 11.40 p.m.) London, August 8. Mr. Willows's Cardiff to London flight was made in an All-English dirigible. The gas bag contained twenty thousand feet of gas, and the driving power was supplied by a 30 horse-power motor. Tho aviator 'was guided by un. illuminated motor-car. i
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100809.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
114ALL-ENGLISH DIRIGIBLE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in