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Giant 100-Passenger British Air Liner Will Take Off for Australia in 1927

LONDON, August 5. —Great Britain’s new air liner, which is said to be the largest and most perfect airship in the world, is now almost completed and will take the air early in 1927.

The new airship, designed for exclusively commercial purposes, is 765 feet long and is propelled by six 400-horsepower motors. It is capable of carrying 100 passengers, a crew of 36 men, 20 tons of luggage and 5 tons of mail.

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U.S. Warships Are Rushed to Help Dirigible

Royal Navy Dirigible R-34 landed at a field on Long Island, NY.

WASHINGTON, July s.—(United Press.)— Encountering head winds over Nova Scotia and with the petrol supply rapidly becoming exhausted, the huge British dirigible R-34 today wirelessed the navy department for help. The navy immediately responded by ordering the Fatilla, a fast steam yacht in government service, and two destroyers to rush to the assistance of the airship.

The R-34 appears to have been so severely buffeted by unexpected gales that she has been unable to make the progress expected, and with the gasoline dangerously low, was believed in peril of becoming practically a derelict of the air, at the mercy of the wind.

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Doisy Ready to Go

French Flyer Leaves China for Japan Tomorrow.

SHANGHAI, May 24.—Capt. Pelletier Doisy, the French aviator, has fixed the time for his departure for Nanking, on his way to Japan, via Peking and Korea, for daylight Monday.

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Portuguese Flyers Held Up by Weather

KARACHI, India, May 3.-—Portugal's long distance air effort is held up at Bender Abbas by unfavorable weather, according to reports here today. The two Portuguese flyers, who left Lisbon several…
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French Aviator Is Now at Agra, India

Portrait of Georges Pelletier d'Oisy
Portrait de Georges Pelletier-Doisy devant son avion à Villacoublay

PARIS, May 3.—France’s effort to win long distance supremacy in the air advanced another lap today when Lieut. Pelletier d’Oisy arrived at Agra, British India, from Karachi at 1:30 p. m, according to advices to the air ministry.

D’Oisy is attempting a flight from France to Japan in record time.

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A Thrilling Ascent

Miss Mary Way took her celestial way from the Place d'Armes, last evening, in the air-ship "Paul Morphy," attended, as usual, by her gallant cavalier, Prof. Wilson. Prof. Wilbur and…
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Greatest Defeat of War Crushes German Zeppelin Airfleet

picture of several men examining the frame of a crashed zeppelin

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Germany probably lost one-half of her total effective fleet of super-Zeppelins as a result of the raid of October 20 over England, according to official cablegrams received here. All France is exultant over what the dispatches declare to be the greatest defeat administered to an air fleet since the beginning of the war. The gratification is more intense because it is now known that the German raid was an attempt to carry out a fearful threat of vengeance made four days before.

On that occasion the German government sent out a warning to both France and England of dire punishment to follow what the Germans declared to be unwarranted and inhuman attacks by British and French aviators upon peaceful German towns. Reprisals were threatened in an official German communication, which in part reads: