AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

BRITISH AIRSHIP

ANOTHER TRIAL

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, November 1. The RlOl airship made another successful trial flight to-day. She left the mooring mast at Cardington just before ten o’clock. Sir Samuel Hoaro former Air Minister, was one of th passengers. After circling for about ten minutes over Bedford, the airship * made for Sandringham, where she dipped gracefully to within four hundred feet from the ground. The King and Queen, and their granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth were on the terrace. The crew waved to them. The King raised his hat in reply. The little Princess clapped her hands in delight. Thence the airship .flew, via Cromer and Norwich, to Newmarket Heath, where racing was in progress. She circled over the racecourse, and then proceeded to Cambridge. It had been intended to visit London, but, owing to fog, the airship returned from Cambridge to- Cardington, and was back at the mooring mast soon after three o’clock. The highest air speed reached during the flight was approximately - seventy miles an hour. November loth is mentioned as the date on which the sister airship, R.IOO, is likely to leave Howden, in Yorkshire, on a trial trip.

•.... GIANT BOMBING PLANE.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ' MILAN, Nov. 3. . A mammoth homber. fitted with six Asso engines, each of 1000 h.p., and capable of carrying tons of bombs, was successfully tried out. It is stated to be the largest and most powerful machine of its type' in the world. It is 33 feet high, 85 feet long, and has 145 feet wing spread. When fully loaded it weighs 15 tons and has a speed of 130 miles per hour.

ANGLO-CANADIAN SERVICE. LONDON, Nov. 3. The Canadian Transport Coy. is in negotiation with the Imperial Airways, for the inauguration of .an iair- (' * 'line;.between Britain and, Canada, via Scotland, Iceland and Greenland. The longest , non-stop run on -the route would be one thousand miles. Fifty passengers, are to be , carried in six engined flying boats, which are to be , constructed according to the Air Ministry’s specifications, for use on the ~ rqute.. , ~ , .

, h ; OTTAWA, Nov. 3. r,„. • Speaking at Saskatoon (in Saslyatthe . Prime Minister of Ca.fi,adn,JMr McKenzie King v ,said tthatj’be- . : fore leaving on his. Western tour he had conferred about the possibility of granting assistance towards an aerial line connecting the , British Isles with Western Canada. He stated that prnc- . tical people were studying this question with the hope that a time would come when they would be able to ’ j breakfast in Canada and dine in London .in the evening. , -