The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-01
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ENDS SEA HOP
TO MONTREAL
British DirigibIe, Tail Fin
Broken in Storm, Is <
Safely Moored.
WAITS UNTIL DAYLIGHT
U. s., Canadian Officials in
Greeting; Passengers
Speak on Radio.
WAITS UNTIL DAYLIGHT

ST. HUBERT AIRPORT. Quebec
Canada, Aug. 1.-The dirigible R-10C
came to rest here today at Abs a. m
eastern standard time, eighty
hours flfty-one minutes after it left
its home port at Cardington, Eng
land.
Circling above the st. Hubert
airport for almost three hours, after
edging its way through storms in
the st. Lawrence valley with a bro
ken tail fin, the big experimental
airship settled down at the new
mooring mast at 4:28 a. M, and
eight minutes later was made fast,
with its journey ended.
The mooring was completed
quickly, once the light of day en-
aoled Squadron Leader 3. S. Booth,
the dirigible's commander, to head
down toward the 100000 mast and
set the ships nose into the revolving
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Water Ballast Dumped
The crew of the R-100 dropped
slender cables to the ground, and
as the six motors slowed down wa
ter ballast was dumped from the
forepart of the ship. A small
ground crew of soldiers spliced the
dirigible's cables to one large one
dangling from the steel mooring
arm at the top of the mast.
Powerful motors at the base of
the mast pulled in the cable, draw
ing the ship, its motors idling, closer
to the mast.
When the big envelope was within
about twenty feet of the top of the
mast two other cables were let
down from the bow and the stern
and the ground crews seized them
to hold it steady as the mechanism
in the tower drew it closer to the
universal coupling joint.
Speak Over Radio
At 4:36 o'clock the dirigible's tip
snapped into the receptacle on the
mast, the telescopic raooring arm
was drawn in; and the ship was left
with just enough room between it
and the mast to swing freely in the
wind.
High United States and Canadian
officials were on hand to extend a
greeting to the passengers and crew.
Custom officials and medical ex-
an1iners were the first to go aboard.
They made an examination of the
ship, as of any incoming ocean liner,
before the seven passengers and
thirty-seven members of the crew
were allowed to land.
Wing Commander r. B. B. Col
more, director of airShip develop
ment and representative of the Brit
ish air ministry, was the first aboard
the ship to speak over the radio
through thes microphones that were
handed up to the waiting passen-
gers while the customs and medical
examination was going on.
Commander Colmore mininized
the damage to the tail fin, but said
that it, combined with bad wealth
er Thursday, had delayed the dirigi-
BILE on the last stage of its fight.
Compares Early Flight
The damage to the fin was not en-
tirely repaired in the air, it was
learned, although sufficient repairs
were made to enable the dirigible
to continue at reduced speed to st.
Hubert.
Major G. H. Scott, who com
manded the dirigible R-34, which
made the first transatlantic round
trip flight, compared that feat with
the luxurious crossing Of the R-100
I'VE slept well, ate well and had
plenty of time to walk about, .
Major Scott said. comparing the
two. Owing to the way in which
the crew of the R-100 worked, we
got here safely, comfortably and not
very late"
Lieutenant Commander Sir G.
Denistoun Burney, who designed the
R-100 as an experimental aircraft,
predicted great benefits to the Brit
ish empire if it's scattered parts
could be linked by dirigible lines.
The fight just completed was a
test of the usefulness of the So
called Atlantic type of dirigible, in
service within the British empire.
Officers, Crew Rest
The passengers, officers and crew
descended from the ship down the
mooring mast elevator, and we're re-
ceived informally on the ground by
high Canadian and United States
officials.
The officers and crew will be al
lowed to rest today. The first formal
ceremony was scheduled for 3 p. m.
Saturday, when an official reception
will be held in Montreal.
Most of today and tomorrow viii
be spent in refueling the ship and
filling the bags with hydrogen to re-
place that lost during the voyage.