R38-class airship
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The R.38 class of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War. Airships of this class were intended for long-range patrol duties over the North
The R.38/ZR-2 making its first flight trial on 23 June 1921
The R38/ZR-2 leaving its hangar for trials, showing the top gun platform.
Rescuers scramble across the wreckage of British R.38/USN ZR-2, 24 August 1921.
R38 memorial, Western Cemetery, Hull
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
R38-class airship
…the Italian-built US semi-rigid airship Roma in 1922 (34 dead), the French Dixmude in 1923 (52 dead), the USS Shenandoah in 1925 (14 dead), the British R101 in 1930 (48 dead), the USS Akron in 1933 (73 dead), the USS Macon in 1935 (2 dead), and the German Hindenburg in 1937 (36 dead). The R.38 class was…
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