MAMMOTH BRITISH AIRSHIP CHURCH SERVICES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1929, Page 5

MAMMOTH BRITISH AIRSHIP

CHURCH SERVICES

NEARING COMPLETION

LUXE 1! V ACCOMMODATION

BOX DON, Feb. 5

It is announced that only the finish, ilia; touches to the structure ol HIOO remain to he made before she is ready to undergo her first tests. She has been under constnietion at Howden, Yorkshire, for the past two years, rfopes are entertained that her “demonstration” voyage to America and hack will be possible in the summer.

Writing about, tin’s sister ship of R 1.01, the Air Correspondent of the “Sunday Times” says:---Commander C. D. Burney. M.P., who will command the' vessel, and under whose supervision she has been built by the Airship Guarantee Co., told me that tlx: progress of building the airship had been quilt?" satisfactory, and mat, unless some unforseen hitch occurred, she would be ready to “take the air” very shortly. “It is extremely difficult to give any definite date for her first tests,” he said, “as we cannot foresee the results of her preliminary ‘shod’ tests. If these are as satisfactory as we hope, RIO!) will Ik: launched in the near fu-ture—-a matter of weeks—and her Atlantic flight will he made as soon as possible.” The It 10!) represents a new epoch in airship building, the work having been undertaken with a view to commercial success. “This experiment with RIOO is on the smallest scale with which commercial success can he reasonably hoped for.’’ Commander Burney said, “and on this experiment the immediate future of airships must stand or fall.” If the experiment proves successful, and financial support is forthcoming, an even larger airship is proposed, and it is understood than the Airship Guarantee Company already has plans for a colossal craft with a capacity of nine or ten million cubic feet—over twice the size of RHX). One of the greatest aims of the designers of RIOO has been speed, as un- / less a speed of 1.10 miles an hour can be obtained and maintained, the airship cannot prove a commercial success. The new machines, which will he known ns the “Atlantic” type, will he designed for a cruising speed of 100 m.p.li., which will not only allow of a regular Atlantic air service being opened, but will also make the ships considerably safer and diminish the “rolling” effect in the air. At the same time, the increased speed will make the vessel better able to withstand the vortical gusts of wind, such as that which partially crippled the Graf Zeppelin on her flight to America. 4200 H.P. ENGINES. The RIOO will be driven by six 700horse power Bolls Royce engines, carried in three separate engine cars, suspended from the Hull of the machine. Sufficient .fuel will be carried for the ship to travel 3500 miles with 100 passengers, a crew of about forty, and a generous allowance of luggage fbr each passenger. Accommodation for passengers will he in the nature of a cross between a Rulman and a luxury liner; their quarters will be two and four-berth cabins, lounge, dining room, and pro Glibly a dance flexor. Every room is to be electrically lit, and cooking will be done on electrical stoves. Below the two floors allocated to passengers will be a third for the crew. These three floors are in a coach slung directly below the hull of the ship, and they will be enclosed by double walls which will prevent the drone of the engines from reaching the passengers. Many requests have already been made by persons who wish to travel to America on PIOO when she makes her first flight, and offers of £IOOO for the passage have fjeen made. So far, however, matters of this nature have not been settled. The passage from Germany to America in the Graf Zeppelin was £OOO.

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