RIO! ALOFT AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 823, 18 November 1929, Page 9

RIO! ALOFT AGAIN

LONGEST FLIGHT YET UNDERTAKEN SEEN OVER SCOTLAND Reed. 12.13 pm. LONDON. Sunday. In continuation of her previous trial llights. the giant airship RlOl left the mooring-mast at Cardiiigton at 10.30 this morning. The flight was undertaken unexpectedly. and is the longest yet made. She has on beard her crew and an official observer. The airship appeared over llowdeu. Yorkshire, where tlie second of the State airships, the RIOO, is housed, and is awaiting lier living tests. The RlOl flew over the shod of her sistership, who.se crew were among those who watched her manoeuvres. Later this evening she was reported over Berwick. Scotland, and it is understood that she will not return to the mooring-mast until tomorrow. COMMONERS DISAPPOINTED On Saturday, 20 peers and SO members of the House of Commons, including four women, who intended to take a flight in tlie airship RlOl, were deeply disappointed after assembling in pouring rain in Palace Yard. Westminster. for conveyance to Carding!on, n> learn from an official of the Air Ministry that the w* at her was too unfavourable to permit of the flight. Miss Ellen Wilkinson looked very crestfallen. She said she had flown in a gale before. There were only a few drops of rain today. Another member said: "There is tion. If we had all gone up aud anything had happened there would have been a general election in record time."