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British Airships
- Ace Pilots
Type Airship in the search function. The items returned included History of Airplanes - R34. The
article includes the Airships' specifications.
http://acepilots.com/
- Airship Heritage Trust
Without doubt 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
- Airship Research Lab
This website features a large amount of information about Airships, with each page dedicated to
a different timeframe. Each page features a multitude of photographs.
http://airship-research-lab.com/
- Australian War Memorial
Click on Search. Using the search term Airship will return many items, predominately related to
blimps.
http://www.awm.gov.au
- 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. This is a direct link to the airship section.
http://www.barneswallistrust.org/airships.htm
- British Pathe
British Pathe still charges for professional use of their massive library of footage but now you
can preview the footage for free. Use to the search function to locate relevant material.
http://www.britishpathe.com/
- 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 the
L-19 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 then on show all items. The Airship related pages are listed under
Airfields / Hangers. This website celebrates Britain's engineering heritage.
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/
- HistoryNet.com
Type the search term Airship in the search function. And of the items returned, only one was
about a British Airship: The R34.
http://www.historynet.com/
- Library of Congress
Use the search function to locate images of British airships. Sometimes a larger image will only
display at the Library of Congress itself.
http://www.loc.gov/
- 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
- Modern Merchanix
Use the search function to find articles from old magazines that feature Airships. The articles
are extensively illustrated and ideally suited to Steam Punk enthusiasts.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com
- Nevil Shute Norway Foundation
The author Nevil Shute Norway had a life-long passion for aviation. He worked on the R100 as
Chief Calculator with Barnes Wallis as Chief Designer. I recommend using the search function.
http://www.nevilshute.org/
- 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
- Torontoist
Use the search term Airship to locate information about the visit of the R100 in 1930.
http://torontoist.com/
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