The British Imperial Airship Scheme was a project conceived in 1924 to improve communication and provide transportation between Great Britain and distant...

British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service...

routes as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. The other airship, the R101, was built by the British Air Ministry, but both airships were funded by the Government...

transformed into the Imperial Airship Scheme, under which two airships were built, one by a private company and the other by the Royal Airship Works under Air...

Built R80 class airships R80 - first flight, 19 July 1920. Tested to destruction, 1925 R81 - Not Built Imperial Airship Scheme airships R100 - first flight...

was a proposed British airship that was never built. The development of the R102 in 1930 resulted from the Imperial Airship Scheme, when it became apparent...

the Imperial Airship Scheme, a plan to launch airship routes throughout the British Empire. This involved the construction of two large airships, the...

air routes, initially airship and then flying boat, between Great Britain and the rest of the Empire, see Imperial Airship Scheme. The Suez Canal route...

R100 airship project at Vickers. This was the private counterpart to the Air Ministry's R101, both designed as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme to develop...

returned to Jamboli. In 1921 Britain's Imperial Airship Scheme aimed to connect the British Empire using passenger airships. Blau gas was a mixture of saturated...

based at Mineola (Long Island, NY). The British Imperial Airship Scheme of 1924 envisaged a commercial airship that could also carry five fighter aircraft...

completed with two other manned Camels. The British Imperial Airship Scheme of 1924 initially envisaged an airship that could carry five fighter aircraft in military...

Subsequently, he worked at the Royal Airship Works in connection with the Imperial Airship Scheme and took part in a second return Atlantic crossing, this time by...

relocated to Cardington from Pulham in 1928. In 1924, the Imperial Airship Communications scheme planned to extend mail and passenger service to British...

refurbished for an experimental flight to Egypt as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, but calculations cast doubt on her ability to make the trip as...

than 15 passengers. Canada became involved in the Imperial Airship Scheme during the 1926 Imperial Conference, when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie...

and later on secondment to the (civilian) Royal Airship Works as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. Both before and after WWI, Irwin also had a successful...

intended as a testing ground for postwar commercial services by airship (see Imperial Airship Scheme), and it was the first flight to transport paying passengers...

six-engined experimental airship, the R100, in competition with the government-built R101 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. Their buildings were at...

of airship accidents. It includes both rigid airships and blimps, which operated differently from one another. Not included on this list are airships shot...

released, in 2000, the double CD Curly's Airships, about the 1924 Imperial Airship Scheme and the R101 airship disaster of 1930. Among many others, Peter...

with the establishment of the Imperial Airship Scheme in 1924 was bought by Vickers for the construction of the airship R100. The author Nevil Shute Norway...

(Submarine Scout or Sea Scout) class airships were simple, cheap and easily assembled small non-rigid airships or "blimps" that were developed as a matter...

civil airship development which was to be carried out by Vickers with support from the Government. This evolved into the Imperial Airship Scheme which...

participated in early test flights of the government funded airship, R101, part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. He was instrumental in persuading the Secretary of...

supporter of airships, Thomson was responsible for the Imperial Airship Scheme, which involved the construction of R101 at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington...

by Zeppelin. Britain withdrew from building rigid airships, cancelled the Imperial Airship Scheme, and scrapped the R100 within a year of the crash....

cancelled in 1931 after the crash of the R101 and the end of the Imperial Airship Scheme. The R100 would have used the Tornado, but petrol engines were...

On Civvy Street" Chapter Six: A Great British Compromise "That Imperial Airship Scheme" "From The Sidelines" Chapter Seven: A Kindly Sort Of Cove "A Kindly...

general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s...