GREAT BRITISH AIRSHIP
RlOl TO FLY TO INDIA BEFORE CHRISTMAS ABOUT TO BE TESTED (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Sunday. Tn the event ot satisfactory home trials of the airship RlOl, which is still in the hangar, a flight to India is expected to be made before Christmas. Cord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, will be a passenger for the purpose of investigating the possibilities of an Anglo-Indian service. It is stated that preparations already are afoot at Karachi for mooring the airship. A British official wireless message says that in view of the great public interest in the first flight of the RlOl, the Air Ministry has arranged for parking accommodation for 3,000 cars on either side of the road which runs past the Cardington airdrome for the remaining days of the trials. The dirigible was to have been taken out of her shed to the new mooring mast, three-quarters of a mile away, yesterday morning, but the weather forecast was unfavourable and the trial was postponed until tomorrow. At least 4S hours will be spent in the mooring-mast trials. The airship will then carry out flights and return to the mast frequently in the initial stage of the flying tests.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 788, 8 October 1929, Page 9
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