Howden's Airship the R-100

built in the 1920s just outside the Yorkshire town of Howden (at R.N.A.S Howden) the R 100 remains to this day the best rigid airship built in the UK and was designed by Barnes Wallis for further information on the R 100 I would recommend a book by Kenneth Deacon "The Men and Women who Built and Flew the R 100" an excellent account of the ship which has been very extensivley reasearched and well written

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[thedarkvaleman]

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.)

[gaz11h]

@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

[MvcVmc]

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

[gaz11h]

@MvcVmc Thanks very much, sounds interesting will check it out many thanks

[gaz11h]

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

[rhimember72]

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.

[gaz11h]

@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.

[saathome]

Enjoyable and informative. Thank you for taking the time to make it. Steve

[scribblernick]

Great film! 5* Well done.

[EnglishAirship]

That's why my username is "English Airship".

[Humbertusmarius]

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.

[trevorcardington]

Have A Cardington website if anyone is interested cardington.weebly.com

poems pictures and information on the airship station

TM