in and the English Channel were swept on Monday by one of the fiercest gales ever experienced. ROOL, Britain's great new airship, triumphantly survived the gale. She had a "mad minute" daring the early hours of Monday morning, for she was struck at 1.15 a.m. bya line squall, a meteorological Phenonienon in which there is a sudden change of wind velocity and simultaneously a sudden change of. wind direction. When the squall struck R.101, in less than @ minute there was an angular alteration of
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