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Airship R101 G-FaW moored outside the hangarsAirship R101, G-FaW, moored outside the hangars at Cardington while onlookers view from the road and the top deck of a bus
Interior of the R101 airshipAmenities of the giant British airship R101, showing the smoking room, a typical two-berth cabin, and passengers looking down on the lights of a city from the starboard promenade deck
Holding up the R101A member of the WaC - the Womens Army Auxiliary Corp - holds up the R101 Airship, riding at her home mast at Cardington, Bedford
Airship R101 at Cardington
R101 airship on mooring mastThe R101 airship attached to a mooring mast, Cardington RAF Base. Date: circa 1930
Airship R101 G-FaW moored alongside the hangarsAirship R101, G-FaW, moored alongside the hangars at Cardington
The R101 before FlightTHE R.101 : hundreds of men are required to manoeuvre the cumbersome airship on the ground, preparatory to its disastrous first (and last) flight
R101 at Cardington, BedfordThe R101 Airship, riding at her home mast at Cardington, Bedford, seen behind the two massive Airship Hangars. R101 was a British rigid airship completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship
The final flight of R 101, she crashed the next day
R101 at Cardington - 1The R.101 at its mooring mast at Cardington
AIRSHIP / R101 CRASH / 1930The skeleton of the R.101 sits in a field near Beauvais, France, after the crash during its first and last flight. Date: 5 October 1930
Airship R101 leaving the mooring mast at Cardington on the day of its departure to India. 4 October 1930. Date: 1930
Airship R101 at its mooring mast at Cardington
A flying hotel: passenger quarters in airship R101A flying " hotel" : the remarkable passenger quarters in Britains new giant airship, R101. The worlds largest airship
Royal Airship Works R-101R-101 Airship Parked Tethered to a Docking Tower by Airport Buildings and Cars at Cardington, Bedfordshire Date: 1929
Power and control in R101The first diesel-engined airship: power and control in R101. Illustrations of some of the features of R101: a power car, the chart room, and mooring arrangements
Military honours for dead of R101French homage to Britains dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons
R101 engine car on a testbed
R101 at Cardington - 2The huge R.101 at its mooring mast at Cardington
The wreckage of the crashed British Airship R101 near Beauvais, France - whilst on a flight to India Date: 1930
Airship Bournemouth. Maiden flight at RAF CardingtonAirship Bournemouth. Maiden flight at RAF Balloon Centre, Cardington. Built for Festival of Britian, for the Airship Club under the direction of Lord Vantry - being the first built in Britain since
R101 as the air ministers office, 1929R101 as the air ministers office: the second flight of Britains giant airship. Meteorological offices at Cardington; air minister Lord Thomson about to ascend the mooring mast of the R101 by
Inside the control car of the R101
Hamleys Christmas presents advertisement, 1929Full page advertisement for Hamleys toy shop featuring a number of ideas for Christmas 1929 including a bunny nightie and hot water bottle case
R101 from Common Room window Date: 1927
R101 engine car with thrust bearing wire to airscrew hub
Beardmore Tornado engine mounted in the lower half of and engine car of the R101
The R101 airship during construction showing the structure and a partially inflated gasbag
Airship R101 at its mooring mast. Colour tinted photo
Sqn Ldr Bone and French air officials examine R101 wreckageSqn Ldr Bone and French air officials examine the wreckage of the R101. 6 October 1930. Date: 1930
The wreckage of the R101
Airship R101 at alongside its mooring mast at Cardington
R101 at the mooring mastThe R101 at the mooring mast where she is being prepared for her flight to India; she has been lengthened by 50ft and fitted with two new engines
Victims of the R101 airship disasterA holocaust of air experts: victims of the R101 disaster. The British R101 airship crashed near Beauvais in France, on its maiden voyage to Egypt and India, on 5th October 1930
R101 at Cardington - 3The 223-metre long R.101 on the ground at Cardington : a great many men are required to hold it down to earth. Date: 1929
Air Vice-Marshal Sir W Sefton BranckerAir Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877 - 1930), Director of Civil Aviation, killed in the R101 airship disaster on 5th October 1930
Tail of wrecked R101 airship at BeauvaisThe shape of the tail fins and rudder of the R101 airship can be clearly seen amid the wreckage after it crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage
Lord ThomsonBrigadier-General Lord Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, 1st Baron Thomson (1875 - 1930), Secretary of State for Air; killed in the R101 airship disaster
R101 survivors arrive at CroydonSurvivors of the R101 airship crash near Beauvais, France, on 5th October 1930 arrive at Croydon Airport ten days later
Wreckage of R101 airshipThe mangled wreckage of the British R101 airship which crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage
Diagram of R101 crashA diagram showing how the British R101 airship dived twice and crashed on a hillside of Allonne, near Beauvais, France on 5th October 1930 on its maiden voyage
Flag of the R101 airshipThe torn flag of the British R101 airship salvaged from the wreck after the airship crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage
R101 CRASH - 1THE R.101 : badly designed, inadequately tested and overloaded, the airship crashes near Beauvais, France, on its way to India
R100 Mooring TowerTHE R.100 : mooring tower erected at Howden, Yorkshire, for R.100s projected transatlantic service, which alas never came into being due to the R.101 crash
R101 CRASH - 2THE R.101 : badly designed, inadequately tested and overloaded, the airship crashes near Beauvais, France, on its way to India