R -101's Triumph (1929)

Cardington, Bedfordshire.
Full titles read: "THE R-101'S TRIUMPH ! - World's largest airship makes successful maiden flight of 5 hours and afterwards returns to her mast as easily as a liner to port."
L/S of the awesome sight of the gigantic airship the R-101 moored to mast, numerous cars pass by on a busy road in the foreground. M/S of lift moving up the mast to the airship. L/S and M/S of the R-101. Very good footage of the airship leaving it's mooring and being pulled backwards by men holding ropes on the ground. L/S of man looking out form the flight area. Various L/S's shots of the airship in flight
Intertitle read: "Home again."
L/S's of the airship docking with the mast, a man is seen reaching out for the mooring rope from the top. L/S and M/S's of the large flying machine firmly docked.
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[@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.

[@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.

[@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? 😕 🙄