AVIATION
-. .ZEPPELIN’S ARCTIC VENTURE. (ijnited Press Association—By Electric , , Telegraph—Copyright). aSSS BERLIN, Sept. 23. ~ .Jfijiancial arrangements have been completed for the Graf Zeppelin to fin, Arctic flight in the spring of : j93c|.k;, ; - - j.Her . personnel will number fortysix..,-.:,' . . R-lbl INFLATED. : $$Y; > LONDON, Sept. 23. . The British airship RIOI has been inflated*; She is expected to make her first trial within a fortnight. ' . A4KSPEED QUESTION. A l ' ■ LONDON. Sept. 24.. / ' Tha ‘lDaily Telegraph’s” aviation writer ■’ points out that the airships RICO and -RIOT are in danger of being’Criticised as a failure unless thej attain arr.aveiage speed of seventyfivo miles per hour, independent of wind;' with a maximum speed of over eighty'' miles, but RlOl will be lmndi- . .capped on her first trials fcy the fact •that only’.'four out of five of the fljeavy oil engines with which she is fitted with be available for propulsion. : v . • • ''" The writer adds that the public will, be advised to remember that when the full programme is completed, RlOl ' 'Kill have the desired speed capacity.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1929, Page 5
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