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British Airships
- Airship Heritage Trust
Quite simply the pre-eminent website for British airships. This highly
professional website features a vast amount of information, photographs and even
movie clips.
http://www.airshipsonline.com/
- Australian War Memorial
When using the search term airship you receive many results featuring British
Airships. Prints can also be purchased with the price dependent upon the intended
use.
http://www.awm.gov.au/database/cas.asp
- Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust
Whilst most people would be aware of Barnes Wallis for his work on the bouncing, or Dambuster,
bombs he also contributed to the design of British Airships such as the R101 and
even had the author Nevil Shute as his chief stress engineer.
http://www.barneswallistrust.org/
- NEW! - Canadian Aviation Museum
This is a link to a lavishly illustrated twenty-four page report about
the return flight of the R100 from Great Britain to Canada.
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/research/
- Diver Magazine
This is the response by the wrecks' editor of Diver magazine to a readers'
enquiry about the search for the wreckage of the L-19 Zeppelin in the North Sea.
http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=4091§ion=&action=display&show=airship
- NEW! - Engineering Timelines
This websites celebrates the engineering heritage of Great Britain.
Click on Explore Where and use the search term Airship. I should note
that this website whilst interesting, is frustrating to use.
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/
- Lord King Norton of Wotten Underwood
Upon his elevation to the life peerage, Sir Harold Roxbee Cox took the title of
Lord King Norton of Wotten Underwood. He was a part of the engineering staff at
the Royal Airship Works where the R101 was built. This is his personal archive.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/library/cranfield/
about/archive/index.jsp
- Marcus Rowland & Forgotten Futures
This is a Vickers Airship catalogue from the 1920's and it includes a large
amount of Airship specifications and illustrations.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/
vickers/vickers.htm
- Nevil Shute Norway Foundation
Most famous today for his novels such as On the Beach, Nevil Shute Norway
had a lifelong passion for aviation and he worked on the R100 as an assistant to
Sir Barnes Wallis. He was also a highly successful novelist writing under his nom
de plume of Nevil Shute. The biography section alone features two short biographies,
a time line and photo albums and also two oral histories.
http://www.nevilshute.org/
- NEW! - North East History
This is a article about Sir Barnes Wallis. While today he is most famous
for the Dambusters bombs, he also contributed greatly to the Imperial Airship Scheme.
http://www.northeasthistory.co.uk/the_north_east/history/
echomemories/teesside/205/270405.html
- NEW! - Queen's University Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
This conference paper examines how engineering students can improve the
standard of writing through reading the works of Nevil Shute.
http://me.queensu.ca/people/oosthuizen/documents/
CDIO_Conference_2006_Shute_MODWEB_000.doc
- Roll of Honour
This website is dedicated to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. When using
the search Airship many results where returned, with a wide variation in the
amount of information provided with the news reports photographs of the crash of
the R101 are particularly interesting.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/search.html
- Story of Pulham and its Airships
This is an extract from a booklet published to commemorate the 70th anniversary
of the R34 roundtrip across the Atlantic in 1919. It also includes some
information about the R36.
http://www.gurney.co.uk/halliday/beckvale/psmair.htm
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