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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 7 (December 1, 1930)

Air Future of Gas

Air Future of Gas.

“Death is swallowed up in victory,” and from a national point of view this is true of the forty-odd victims of R101, for as pioneers of progress they can claim that the little bit of France they died on is as glorious as any that was consecrated by the Great War. But whether their victory is to have a commercial expression is now uncertain. All the old criticism of the practicability of the airship has been revived, and no one knows whether, when the big inquiry has reported, the policy of working towards commercial airship services will be continued or not. Air lines to India are fairly secure with the growing adaptability of heavier-than-air machines. Will the British Government, with national persistence, press on the airship campaign, or leave it to Germany and Dr. Eckener?