Comments on: R101, 75 years on http://airminded.org/2005/10/09/r101-75-years-on/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:25:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Airminded · Tomorrow the world http://airminded.org/2005/10/09/r101-75-years-on/comment-page-1/#comment-31772 Airminded · Tomorrow the world Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:52:53 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=53#comment-31772 [...] But it didn’t work out this way. For a start, the British ‘airship moment’ was brief. R38 broke up in mid-air over the Humber before it could be flown to America, and this put an end to military airship development. The 1924 Labour government initiated a civilian airship programme, with the aim of binding the colonies and dominions closer to the mother country. This eventually produced the successful R100, but also the less-fortunate R101, the crash of which put finally an end to Britain’s airship ambitions. [...] [...] But it didn’t work out this way. For a start, the British ‘airship moment’ was brief. R38 broke up in mid-air over the Humber before it could be flown to America, and this put an end to military airship development. The 1924 Labour government initiated a civilian airship programme, with the aim of binding the colonies and dominions closer to the mother country. This eventually produced the successful R100, but also the less-fortunate R101, the crash of which put finally an end to Britain’s airship ambitions. [...]

]]> By: Acquisitions | Airminded http://airminded.org/2005/10/09/r101-75-years-on/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Acquisitions | Airminded Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:05:29 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=53#comment-111 [...] Basil Collier. Heavenly Adventurer: Sefton Brancker and the Dawn of British Aviation. London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. A big wheel in the RFC, for most of the 1920s he was in charge of civil aviation at the Air Ministry. He was killed in the R101 disaster in 1930. [...] [...] Basil Collier. Heavenly Adventurer: Sefton Brancker and the Dawn of British Aviation. London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. A big wheel in the RFC, for most of the 1920s he was in charge of civil aviation at the Air Ministry. He was killed in the R101 disaster in 1930. [...]

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2005/10/09/r101-75-years-on/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Brett Holman Sun, 16 Oct 2005 07:37:55 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=53#comment-66 Hey cool, a trackback! My very first one. And from the History Carnival, no less. But for some reason WordPress has neglected to mention the author's name or link to the originating post: <a href="http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2005/10/history_carniva.html" rel="nofollow">Acephalous</a>. How irritating. Hey cool, a trackback! My very first one. And from the History Carnival, no less. But for some reason WordPress has neglected to mention the author’s name or link to the originating post: Acephalous. How irritating.

]]> By: Acephalous http://airminded.org/2005/10/09/r101-75-years-on/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Acephalous Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:16:50 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=53#comment-65 <strong>History Carnival, Issue #18</strong> [I apologize to those who wanted nothing more than to start Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and an epic History Carnival. Don't blame me. Blame Kos.] This installment of the History Carnival opens with Laura James' brilliant post History Carnival, Issue #18

[I apologize to those who wanted nothing more than to start Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and an epic History Carnival. Don't blame me. Blame Kos.] This installment of the History Carnival opens with Laura James’ brilliant post

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