Commercial Lines the Principal Object: Extensive Research London, Feb. 19.
In addition to the total of £15, 809,000 as provided in the Air Estimates for 1925-26, account also must be taken of the expenditure of the Colonial Office, "under the Middle Bast Vote, of $2,116.00, comprising Traq, £2,744,000; fine" and" Trans-Jordan, £272,000; and by the Admiralty for the Fleet Air Arm of £1,820,000,-making an effective net increase of $1,972,000 over the estimates for the present year.
ith regard to airships, for which £500,000 has been provided, Sir Samuel Here, the Secretary for Ale, expresses th present the principal object to be kept in view and that the programme of airship development should be made sufficiently elastic to render it possible to accelerate transition to a phase of commercial operation, Meanwhile, the imme-into policy is to secure tha: every slop shall be taken to ensure safety and success in the experimental \stage, especially in view of the fact that these ships are twice the of any previously constructed, extensive programme of research and experiment ix in hand, in which connexion the R. 33 is be: ing reconditioned and will shortly curry out a series of experimental flights and the R.36 is now being reconditioned u: Pulham for an experimental flight to Egypt. Mooring masts are being constructed in order that the new airships may be able to moor at Cardington and tut two stations oversens.—Reuter, Speed to be Greatly Increased:
Passengers to be Inside the Ship's Body London, Feb, 25, A revolution in ai travel, whereby airships in future will' travel much more safely and faster and fan be moored to Aoatine foreshadowed. in an authoritative statement with regurd.to the new 5,000,000 cubic feet airship which is being constructed by the. Airs Gunrantee Company for the Imperial airship rout Tt appears that the crew and passengers will be accommodated In the body of the eruft, instend of outside cars, thus ¢nablinye Increase of speed by over 10 miles an hour and a considerable increase of the flight range, so that it will be possible to fly from England to Bagdad in two days, to Colombo in four days, to Fremantle in six and fa half days and to Auckland in nine days.—Reuter.
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