The ' R100'
On Saturday, August 10th, the ' R100' moored at Cardington after completing her return journey from Montreal in fifty-seven hours, two hours more than the Graf Zeppelin took under more favourable conditions. Wing-Commander Colmore, the Director of Airship Development, is to be congratulated on a triumph of organization. The voyage of the R100' has brought to light the desirability of certain changes in construction, fabric, etc., and it is encouraging to see with what speed both these and the results of modern research are being adopted in the rebuilding of the ' R101,' of which, with this magnificent encouragement, Britain may well have great hopes. The RI00' has made in some respects the best air-passage of the Atlantic, and it is now the turn of the advocates of the heavier-than-air craft to contest
her claims.
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