Vehicle    From /11/1929  To 1930

R100 Airship

Categories: Aviation

In full: His Majesty's Airship R100. It was a privately designed British airship built as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire routes as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. The design team was led by Barnes Wallis. The other, the ill-fated R101was built by the British Air Ministry, but both airships were funded by the government. The R100 made a series of trial flights and a successful return crossing of the Atlantic in July-August 1930, but following the crash of the R101 in October 1930 the Imperial Airship Scheme was terminated and the R100 was broken up for scrap.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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