Cardington soon became the beating heart of operations. Two massive airships were built, the R-100 (at Howden, Yorkshire) and R-101 (at Cardington). Both airships were over 700 feet long and ...

The Imperial Airship Scheme aimed to connect Britain with its empire but ended in disaster with the R101 crash claiming 48 lives. The R100 made a successful Atlantic crossing but the R101 crash ...

An airship’s envelope offers protection from ... circa 1929, in the then-new R101, as surely as it afflicted the U.S. Army, which wanted the LEM-V to be flying in Afghanistan mere months after ...