MONSTER AIRSHIPS
■■ • ■■■ '• ■ BRITAIN’S NEW PAIR, : s •' • !.'V ‘•"•.i-* **i"\ *'* • United Era*' Association— By. Electr i.o . Telegraph^-Oopyright). *>'}. ■' ' V : ‘ ,■; ' / ; ; : ' LONDON, August.2l.. It is expected. .that . the.. airship • »;‘.'R.lolv» will be ready, at the .end of - this: month. .. .. , \ • It -is also expected . that; airship y-ftilOO” will- be ready early next mottth.'; - v ; For five weeks -past, mechanics .have been .busy inflating “ R.lOl ” at the ' rate-.df one million feet weekly.;- '■'< ; , six hundred’, men,.and 150 girls -have‘Spent l nearly two years in -build--R.-100,” which is already floating . in-its shed. • To-day six engines were successfully tried out. • • > . ' “R:100” is structurally the strong-. est> airship , jin-existence. l » The, .policy of. the designers (throughout has -been •to - place strength before performance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 3
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113MONSTER AIRSHIPS Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 3
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