R -101's Triumph (1929)

[@charleswatson1093]

Nevil Shute Norway, who published many successful novel under his first two names, worked as a computer (calculator) on the infinitely better airship R100. The two aircraft were designed and built simultaneously, R100 as a private venture by the Airship Guarantee Company (a subsidiary of Vickers Armstrong), and R101 by an Air Ministry-appointed team. R100's chief designer was Barnes Wallis, later famous as the inventor of, inter alia, the "bouncing bomb" used by the "Dambusters". Norway's autobiography "Slide Rule" contains a lot of information concerning the two airships.

[@RatPfink66]

From 1:02 to 1:15 someone ballsed it up...we see footage of a much smaller and earlier model airship, with squared off tail fins and no aluminum dope on her skin.

[@dancostello6465]

Possibly a prototype used for rock quarries.

[@goldenager59]

British of manufacture, the largest and most well-appointed of her kind, and, as Lord Thomson himself proclaimed, "Safe as a house, except for the millionth chance." Sound eerily familiar? 😕 🙄