1133; the huge airship with which the Admiralty is expected
to attempt the Atlantic flight later in the year, made an excellent trial trip on Thursday week from the Barlow Aviation Wodu in Yorkshire. The opening of the shed doors—each of four sections of door weighs 175 tone—took half-an-hour; the doorway is 240 feet broad. In the ship itself the aft gun position is 670 feet distant from the main control. ' 1133' was a beautiful sight when afloat. She circled round Doncaster, York, and Leeds, covering one hundred and twenty-five miles in about three hours. She carried a crew of twenty-three. When they " let her out," as "road-eaters " say, she " touched " sixty miles per hour at a height of 2,000 feet, and she steered easily. In theory, taking her mean speed at forty-five to fifty miles per hour, she should cross the Atlantic in about forty-eight hours.
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