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...breakfast consisted of sardines, whiskey & soda. The winds slowed the R-100 materially-for five hours the speed varied between 15 and 35 m. p. h. Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, designer, had hoped to make the 3,200-mi. crossing in 50 hr.; the time to moorings at Cardington, England was 57 hr. 5 min.* Officials announced that new "skins" would be placed on both R-100 and R-101; that both craft will be kept busy, the R-101 starting with a flight to Egypt and India this Autumn, the R-100 probably repeating its Canadian voyage...
Banged and buffeted by storms that stood her on end and ripped her tail, the British dirigible R-100 last week completed, twelve hours later than expected, her long-deferred flight from Cardington, England to St. Hubert Airport, Montreal. Largest lighter-than-air craft in the world, fourth to fly the Atlantic, the R-100 made the crossing in 78 hr. 49 min.- She carried 37 officers & crew, seven passengers, including her designer, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney...
...Graf's commander the jeers sounded like cheers and he hung about for some time, flattered. At last the silver cigar slipped over to Cardington airship station, picked up her Senior Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener who had been visiting in the U. S. and had voyaged to England by boat (TIME, April...
...experimental dirigibles, the R-100 (709 ft. long) and the R-101 (730 ft. long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled...
Momentous Formula. Though the Empire Premiers wandered far afield to Cardington, they took on their return a step momentous in the history .of the Commonwealth. After weeks of phrase juggling they agreed at last upon a formula defining exactly, for the first time, the status of the Dominions: "The position and mutual relations of the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions may be readily defined. They are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status and in no way subordinate one to the other in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs...