FLYING TO CANADA
army of engineers relief CREW FOR RIOO experimental flights British Official Wireless Rocd. 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. Arrangements are well advanced for toe experimental flight of the Air Ministry airship RIOO to Canada and back. The date of the vessel’s departure has not yet been fixed, but an announcement is expected within the next few days after the airship has carried out satisfactorily a further test flight. Flight-Commander Atherstone, first officer of the sister airship RlOl, sailed yesterday for Canada with 10 engineers and riggers and one wireless operator to form a relief crew tor RIOO at Montreal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 9
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101FLYING TO CANADA Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 9
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