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Chapter 2: Airborne at Last Fatal Flight

    • Technology

Figures and Appendices

Figure 1: Relative Sizes of the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, HMA R.101, and USS Akron
Figure 2: Inside His Majesty’s Airship R.101
Figure 3: R.101’s Proposed Route to India
Figure 4: The Mooring Tower at the Royal Airship Works
Figure 5: Route of R.101 on its First Flight over London
Figure 6: The First Forty-Five Minutes of R.101’s Final Flight
Figure 7: Route of R.101’s Final Flight
Appendix A: British Passenger Airships Prior to R.100 and R.101
Appendix B: Passenger and Crew on Board R.101’s Flight to India
Appendix C: Flight of HM Airship R.101 to India: Notes for Press Use
Appendix D: Report on Flight in the Graf Zeppelin and Visit to Friedrichshafen by Lieutenant-Colonel V. C. Richmond and Squadron Leader F. M. Rope
Appendix E: Manufacture of the Gas Bags of R.101
Appendix F: Colmore Report on R.101’s Lift November 1929

Figures and Appendices

Figure 1: Relative Sizes of the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, HMA R.101, and USS Akron
Figure 2: Inside His Majesty’s Airship R.101
Figure 3: R.101’s Proposed Route to India
Figure 4: The Mooring Tower at the Royal Airship Works
Figure 5: Route of R.101 on its First Flight over London
Figure 6: The First Forty-Five Minutes of R.101’s Final Flight
Figure 7: Route of R.101’s Final Flight
Appendix A: British Passenger Airships Prior to R.100 and R.101
Appendix B: Passenger and Crew on Board R.101’s Flight to India
Appendix C: Flight of HM Airship R.101 to India: Notes for Press Use
Appendix D: Report on Flight in the Graf Zeppelin and Visit to Friedrichshafen by Lieutenant-Colonel V. C. Richmond and Squadron Leader F. M. Rope
Appendix E: Manufacture of the Gas Bags of R.101
Appendix F: Colmore Report on R.101’s Lift November 1929

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