HUGE BRITISH AIRSHIP
RlOl OUT OF HANGAR AT LAST THOUSANDS CHEER SIGHT Australian and A r w 2. Press Association (Unit xd Service) LONDON, Saturday. At daybreak to day 400 men took the neev airship RtO'i from her hangar at Cardington and safely affixed her to the mooring masf. The great dirigible made a perfect emergence. She looked slate-grey in tlie early dawn, but was transformed into shimmering silver when the sun rose. The mooring cniw pulled her a mile to the mooring m ast. A cable was attached and then tons of ballast were dropped. The airship rose to the summit of the mast and swung prettily’ in the breeze amid the cheers of 5,000 spectators. The first to go ou board was tlie designer of the RlOl, LieutenantColonel Richardson. He was lol.Vnved by Air-Marshal Sir J. F. Higgins. Colonel Richardson sent a message saying he was delighted with the ease with which the dirigible was hamUY'l compared with the difficulties pf handling the old R3B. Fuel lines were run out and the loading process was begun in preparation for engine tests in the afternoon. All the fittings will be tested in the next two days, after which there will be short trial flights, then the public christening.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 793, 14 October 1929, Page 9
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