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.
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The ship was nam
R100
…which not all were successful and also because of the weight of its diesel engines. In lifting efficiency, both dirigibles were inferior to the smaller LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. After R101 crashed and burned in France en route to India on 5 October 1930, the Air Ministry ordered R100 grounded. The airship remained in its shed…
The Graf Zeppelin landing
One of the engine nacelles, preserved in Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Gondola deck plan
Theo Matejko's drawing of the crew accommodation on the keel corridor from the first transatlantic flight