R100

HMA R100 stands for His Majesty's Airship R100, the airship to which the later writer Nevil Shute as constructor has been involved in the construction in the hangar in Howden.

This airship was a private initiative led by Vickers Aircraft Corp. and the R100 has made a successful trip to Canada. When the sister ship, the HMA R101on its maiden voyage in October 1930, crashed and caught fire, the R100 no longer flying/boating and it is dismantled.

Nevil Shute describes many constructive details about both airships in his autobiography, which in 1955 appeared under the title Slide Rule.

The English Wiki R100 page gives much detail information. After more than 80 years still striking that so much information is available about this period in aviation, see also Airship Heritage Trust. In Cardington, the huge hangars as a (ship) yard there still in 2010, but are not accessible to the public. An airship hangs during the building to the roof of his hangar and only when the elevator was equipped with sufficient power, by pumping large volumes of hydrogen gas in it, could the hull be dragged by a number of people from the hangar. The R100 's as well as of the R101 of the ships as well as the associated hangars cardboard paper models download as a PDF from this link R100 or via R100. Print them in color on 140-200 gr white cardboard and put your self some tinkering with a beautiful model in each other, including the mooring or landing mast, which were built in Canada, Egypt and India copies. Of those masts are no existing copies failed, in the 2nd WW is the mast from Cardington demolished for the iron that was in it.