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British Airships
- Airship Heritage Trust
This is the pre-eminent website for British airships. This highly professional
website features a vast amount of information, photographs and even an online
movie page.
http://www.airshipsonline.com/
- Australian War Memorial
Using the search term Airship will return many items, predominately related
to blimps. The price of prints is dependent upon the intended use with some
types of use available for free.
http://www.awm.gov.au/database/cas.asp
- Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust
Whilst Barnes Wallis is most famous for his work on the bouncing, or
Dambuster, bombs he also contributed to the design of the R100.
http://www.barneswallistrust.org/
- Canadian Aviation Museum
Click on the link to this extremely well illustrated PDF report about the
return flight of the R100 from Great Britain to Canada. It also includes
information about the competing airship, the R101.
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/research/
- Diver Magazine
This is the response by the Wrecks editor of Diver magazine to a query from
a reader about a Zeppelin wreck in the North Sea.
http://www.divernet.com/Wrecks/wrecks_qanda/159534/q_a_wrecks_december_2000.html
- Engineering Timelines
Click on Explore Where and use the search term Airship. When I used this
search four items where returned. This website celebrates Britains'
engineering heritage.
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/
- Lord King Norton of Wotten Underwood
Sir Harold Roxbee Cox took the title of Lord King Norton of Wotten Underwood
upon his elevation to a life peerage. He played an important part in the
design of the R101.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/library/cranfield/about/archive/
- Marcus Rowland & Forgotten Futures
This is a scanned ASCII version of a Vickers Airship catalogue from the early
1920's. It includes links to twelve plates reproduced from the original
catalogue.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/vickers/vickers.htm
- Nevil Shute Norway Foundation
Nevil Shute Norway had a life-long passion for aviation and this evident in
his writing. He worked on the R100 as Chief Calculator with Barnes Wallis as
Chief Designer. I recommend using the search as the Airship-related content
is staggering. The photographs of British Airships alone making a visit
worthwhile.
http://www.nevilshute.org/
- Prints and Photographs Online Collection
Use the search function to locate images of British airships. And you can
purchase copies of the images.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
- Roll of Honour
This website is dedicated to those who died fighting for Great Britain. It
include includes inscriptions from numerous war memorials. Use the search
function to locate relevant information.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/search.html
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