R100
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His Majesty's Airship R100 was a privately designed and built British rigid airship made as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire routes as p
R100 at its mooring mast in St. Hubert, Quebec, Canada, July 1930
Composite image representing R100 passing over the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal, August 1930
R100 at Cardington, April 1930. The German Graf Zeppelin is seen in the background.
R100 over Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto, Ontario, then the highest building in the British Empire (August 1930). The rippling of the airship's cover is visible.
R101
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R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance
R100
…competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire routes as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. The other airship, the R101, was built by the British Air Ministry, but both airships were funded by the Government. R100 was built by the Airship Guarantee Company, a specially…
R101 on the day of its first flight, 14 October 1929
One of the airship hangars at Cardington
R101 under construction
Beardmore Tornado engine on display in the Science Museum in London