Great video. Really interesting to see a feature on the R-100; its success always tends to be overshadowed by the R-101 tragedy. It would have been great to travel on one of those beauties (although bailing out before Beauvais in the R101's case.)
@thedarkvaleman Thanks very much glad you liked it, would of liked to have had a flight on one of the large ridgids to preferably the original Graf Zeppelin, I was lucky enough to get a flight on the Good Year Blimp recently that was fun
virtualmuseum.ca released a short podcast on the R-100 for our series "History Matters" yesterday (on the home page, icon on the right of the page) that you might find interesting. The episode is linked to an online exhibition produced by the Société historique du Marigot with over 100 fantastic photos. Also, if you didn't see, Scientific American published an article on May 4 about the return of the airship. Thanks for the video! ~ Dave, Virtual Museum of Canada
thanks for the Comment much appreciated glad you enjoyed it, It was a shame the program was cancelled but airships keep trying to make a comeback hope fully in the not to distant future they will
A fascinating account of a little known episode in history, well presented and so detailed. Glad you mentioned Nevil Shute Norway, so few people know of him now and he is such a good writer.
@rhimember72 Thanks for the Comment and the sub have to be honest couldn't agree more about Nevil Shute I have read most of his books, and thats down to my mum, she was always a fan of his works and once bought me a copy of I think it was Rainbow and the Rose read it and enjoyed it and tried to get as many of his books as i could the only one i wasn't keen on was on the beach which was a little sinister I thought.
Thanks for the video! My Great Uncle "Major G. H. Scott" flew on the R-100 to Canada, plus he was the Captain of the Famous "R-34 Atlantic Flight" (round trip England to USA). He died on the R-101. They were great Airmen!
@48alfaone They certainly were great Aimen and pioneers in Aviation. I well remember filming the R101 memorial for this film, it was on 25th December 2008 around dinner time it was so quiet whilst i was filming the memorial as most people wer settling down to their Christmas dinner the bells on St Mary's church rang out the time its a moment I put in the film to the fallen of the R101, thank you for your comment
@gaz11h Thanks to your video i now see the final resting place of my uncle G.H. Scott. Are the names of those lost in the R-101 crash on the Memorial? Thanks again for the great video, Kev from Canada.
@48alfaone All the names of those on the R101 are on the memorial Gorge H Sott appears on the far side of the Memorial from the gate if you are on Facebook I can let you have photos of the Memorial also I noticed when i subscribed yesterday you also subscribed to trevorcardington and he actually lives in Cardington and is quiet an authority on airships again he is on facebook also and does run quiet a few airship groups and also has a photo of the crew of the R101 thaks again
@gaz11h Hey thanks for the info, i am going to connect with Trev through my kids facebook stuff. We get 600-1000 foot Ocean Freighters past here, i look at them and imagine one of them flying, that's what those Airships would look like, huge haha. Thanks for the video again, Kev.
@48alfaone I have to agree thats a good way of getting some idea how they would of looked as with Trev like i say he really is Mr Airship a font of airship knowledge, and many thanks for your interesting comments
Bravo! A much-overlooked success. Has to be said that the Dragon Rapide was a lovely plane for its time, and that also had quite a lot of Nevil Shute in it. Thanks for this.
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alrightythen214 2 months ago
Great video. Really interesting to see a feature on the R-100; its success always tends to be overshadowed by the R-101 tragedy. It would have been great to travel on one of those beauties (although bailing out before Beauvais in the R101's case.)
thedarkvaleman 8 months ago
@thedarkvaleman Thanks very much glad you liked it, would of liked to have had a flight on one of the large ridgids to preferably the original Graf Zeppelin, I was lucky enough to get a flight on the Good Year Blimp recently that was fun
gaz11h 8 months ago
virtualmuseum.ca released a short podcast on the R-100 for our series "History Matters" yesterday (on the home page, icon on the right of the page) that you might find interesting. The episode is linked to an online exhibition produced by the Société historique du Marigot with over 100 fantastic photos. Also, if you didn't see, Scientific American published an article on May 4 about the return of the airship. Thanks for the video! ~ Dave, Virtual Museum of Canada
MvcVmc 9 months ago
@MvcVmc Thanks very much, sounds interesting will check it out many thanks
gaz11h 9 months ago
That's why my username is "English Airship".
EnglishAirship 1 year ago 3
thanks for the Comment much appreciated glad you enjoyed it, It was a shame the program was cancelled but airships keep trying to make a comeback hope fully in the not to distant future they will
gaz11h 1 year ago
Great video, I really enjoyed it. It's such a shame the whole program was cancelled because of the loss of the R101. Thanks for the video.
Humbertusmarius 1 year ago
Have A Cardington website if anyone is interested cardington.weebly.com
poems pictures and information on the airship station
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trevorcardington 1 year ago
A fascinating account of a little known episode in history, well presented and so detailed. Glad you mentioned Nevil Shute Norway, so few people know of him now and he is such a good writer.
rhimember72 1 year ago 2
@rhimember72 Thanks for the Comment and the sub have to be honest couldn't agree more about Nevil Shute I have read most of his books, and thats down to my mum, she was always a fan of his works and once bought me a copy of I think it was Rainbow and the Rose read it and enjoyed it and tried to get as many of his books as i could the only one i wasn't keen on was on the beach which was a little sinister I thought.
gaz11h 1 year ago
Thanks for the video! My Great Uncle "Major G. H. Scott" flew on the R-100 to Canada, plus he was the Captain of the Famous "R-34 Atlantic Flight" (round trip England to USA). He died on the R-101. They were great Airmen!
48alfaone 1 year ago 3
@48alfaone They certainly were great Aimen and pioneers in Aviation. I well remember filming the R101 memorial for this film, it was on 25th December 2008 around dinner time it was so quiet whilst i was filming the memorial as most people wer settling down to their Christmas dinner the bells on St Mary's church rang out the time its a moment I put in the film to the fallen of the R101, thank you for your comment
gaz11h 1 year ago
@gaz11h Thanks to your video i now see the final resting place of my uncle G.H. Scott. Are the names of those lost in the R-101 crash on the Memorial? Thanks again for the great video, Kev from Canada.
48alfaone 1 year ago
@48alfaone All the names of those on the R101 are on the memorial Gorge H Sott appears on the far side of the Memorial from the gate if you are on Facebook I can let you have photos of the Memorial also I noticed when i subscribed yesterday you also subscribed to trevorcardington and he actually lives in Cardington and is quiet an authority on airships again he is on facebook also and does run quiet a few airship groups and also has a photo of the crew of the R101 thaks again
gaz11h 1 year ago
@gaz11h Hey thanks for the info, i am going to connect with Trev through my kids facebook stuff. We get 600-1000 foot Ocean Freighters past here, i look at them and imagine one of them flying, that's what those Airships would look like, huge haha. Thanks for the video again, Kev.
48alfaone 1 year ago
@48alfaone I have to agree thats a good way of getting some idea how they would of looked as with Trev like i say he really is Mr Airship a font of airship knowledge, and many thanks for your interesting comments
gaz11h 1 year ago
Excellent video - very informative.
9teen48 1 year ago
Excellent documentary.
randommagnum 1 year ago
Bravo! A much-overlooked success. Has to be said that the Dragon Rapide was a lovely plane for its time, and that also had quite a lot of Nevil Shute in it. Thanks for this.
peterkar 1 year ago
@peterkar thank you for watching glad you liked it
gaz11h 1 year ago
Nice work.
ziggy36 2 years ago 2
Enjoyable and informative. Thank you for taking the time to make it. Steve
saathome 2 years ago 10
thank you for watching
gaz11h 2 years ago
Great film! 5* Well done.
scribblernick 2 years ago 5
Excellent Video, well made & full of information 5* Cheers, Bry.
snaphappy60 2 years ago 3