BRITISH AIRSHIPS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1930, Page 2

BRITISH AIRSHIPS

FUTURE OF RIOO AND RlOl

FLIGHTS TO INDIA AND

MONTREAL

LONDON, March LT

Lord Thomson, Secretary ol Slate lor Air in a memorandum accompanying [lie Air Estimates, refens to the future of the airships RIOO and It 101.* “The trials of the airships," he writes, “have shown that a Rath-fac-tory. measure of • success lias been ariWiever, despite delays inevitable in a field so novel and experimental. Loth airships hare proved to he thru") lgldy stable and easy to control. It 1 Oil rode at the mast through weather ol exceptional severity (including gales with gusts up to eighty-three miles per hour) for a month on end, while It 100 has attained a full speed of about eighty-one mil.es per hour; which is as high as that of the Graf Zeppelin, an airship of smaller diameter.

“ On the other hand, owing to the unexpected 'difficulties met with in the development of- the heavy oil engine 11100 has had to be . equipped with petrol engines, and is, therefore not suitable for navigation in the tropics. P.lOl is equipped with the first engine operating on the compression ignition 'system .with heavy oil which has nevyr ’-oen rent ns a power mi it in aircraft, in tips c'mintrv :; but owing to difficulties 'p the development of,a. variable-pitch air-smew .ore. of the five engines has? to be reserved for going astern, while the weight of the power system as-, a whole is. and must. ,for. the .time' beipg, rerun‘n considerably higher than, was, estimated.; : I ;

I.OXG EXPERDIEXTAL FLIGHTS

“it lias been decided, in aecovdanee with the policy of “ safety first ” which has been followed throughout, that an additional bay should he inserted in RIOT before a fight to India and back is undertaken.

“ Provision is made in these estimates for the carrying out of a programme of overseas flights between now and An d. 1P31., The. intention is that ElOp should in the late spring or sum,mer: carry out a flight or flights to the towtlr erected at Morjtreql, apd,duying .the !winter should operate between .Carding,ton. and Jynjiqjia . ( R,IQI ps to fly tp.(Lydia’ and .haply in . thp } autumn, , and wijj he flsqd.,tor, experimental oppratiopj ,o]i| tjie Tit pi an route. This is, •,'pssjential ;ii); ,qrc|pr. to,.obtain tlpp data , nqcesspi’Av.bpfoj’jfi. a , cpipmereml .service on ,-tliif r }'bufe, cpjU ( b ( e established.” .j / (

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