 R100 moored in Saint-Hubert The HM Airship R100 was a rigid airship, the successful private counterpart to the British government R101 project, in a competition intended to maximize innovation. Image File history File links R100_in_Canada. ...
Image File history File links R100_in_Canada. ...
As of January 1, 2002, Saint-Hubert is a borough of Longueuil, Quebec. ...
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
R101 at the mast at Cardington View from the air of the crash site. ...
The R100 was built by the Airship Guarantee Company, a company created solely for the purpose, as a subsidiary of the armaments firm, Vickers. The managing director was Cdr Dennis Burney, and the design team was led by one of the finest aircraft engineers in history, Sir Barnes Wallis. The design team also included, as senior stress engineer, Nevil Norway, who found later fame as the novelist Nevil Shute. Vickers Armstrong (Aircraft) company logo Vickers, founded as the Vickers Company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment, traditionally based in Barrow-in-Furness. ...
Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, was a British aeronautical engineer and private inventor. ...
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDI, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979) was a British scientist, engineer and inventor. ...
Nevil Shute (London, January 17, 1899 – Melbourne, January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ...
Design and construction Leading up to his innovative geodetic space frame fuselage design of the Wellesley, Wellington, and Windsor bombers, Barnes Wallis effectively created the frame of the airship from only 11 standardized components fitted into a non-rectilinear framework. All tubing used was of a special spiral-wound type of superior strength, and all wiring colour coded (a technique invented by Barnes Wallis and used for the first time on R80). The American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, now the Biosphère, on Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal A geodesic dome (IPA: /ʤiədɛsɪk/ or /ʤiədizɪk/ /dəʊm/) is an almost spherical structure based on a network of struts arranged on great circles...
Simplified space frame roof with the nearest unit polygon hightlighted in blue A space frame is a truss-like, lightweight rigid structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern. ...
The Vickers Wellesley was a 1930s light bomber built by Vickers for the Royal Air Force. ...
The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs Chief Designer, R.K. Pierson. ...
The Vickers Windsor was a four-engined British heavy bomber of the world war two period, designed by Barnes Wallis and R.K. Pierson. ...
The R80 was a British airship that first flew on 19th June 1920. ...
Wallis specified Otto-cycle (petrol) engines even though these were considered more of a fire risk; the competing R101 used heavier diesel engine designs. R101 at the mast at Cardington View from the air of the crash site. ...
Constructed at the former RNAS Station at Howden in Yorkshire, the Vickers-built competitor flew to the Government airship establishment at Cardington, Bedfordshire on its maiden flight in the morning of 16 December 1929. At the huge (surviving) hangars at Cardington, two teams, the other led by the Air Ministry, competed to prove their impressive craft capable of flying from the UK to India. The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of World War I. When the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was founded on April 13, 1912 it was intended to encompass all military flying. ...
Howden is a small town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, lying next to the M62 approximately five miles north of Goole. ...
The White Yorkshire rose. ...
Vickers Armstrong (Aircraft) company logo Vickers, founded as the Vickers Company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment, traditionally based in Barrow-in-Furness. ...
Cardington is a village in Bedfordshire in England. ...
Bedfordshire is a county in England and forms part of the East of England region. ...
December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
As with the later Concorde, the eventual goal was to offer a regular and comfortable trans-Atlantic service. Soon after 1920, Vickers' experts had calculated that the fare on an airship journey might be £45 in comparison with a contemporary airliner fare of £115 and that the non-stop range of an airship would be far superior, making the journey times by the alternative modes quite competitive. The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. ...
Trans-Atlantic Voyage to Canada As part of its trials the R100 made a trans-Atlantic trip to Canada in July 1930 averaging 42 mph (68 km/h). The main Canadian mooring station was at the airport in Saint-Hubert, Quebec; it is estimated that one million people visited the airship there upon its arrival. The swifter return flight, in 58 rather than 78 hours, began on 13 August reaching Cardington on 16 August 1930. It could carry 100 passengers at 80 mph (128 km/h). 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
As of January 1, 2002, Saint-Hubert is a borough of Longueuil, Quebec. ...
Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 2nd 1,542,056 km² 1,183,128 km² 176,928...
August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ...
Cardington is a village in Bedfordshire in England. ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
The End of the British Airships The tale of the design of the R100 and its supposed superiority to the R101 is told in Shute's Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer, which was first published in 1954. In reality the ship had several flaws which would have been expensive to repair. One was the need to reinforce the outer covering which was damaged from flapping caused by the widely spaced frames so prominent in the design. Another was the problem with the tail design which was so aerodynamic that it created a strong vacuum that eventually destroyed the tail-cone of the ship prior to her Atlantic crossing. To be fair, the R-100 represented the best that conventional airship technology in Britain had to offer at the time, whereas the R-101 suffered in comparison because of its many groundbreaking, but ultimately problematic innovations. However, it should be noted that both ships were inferior to the Graf Zeppelin in lifting efficiency. R101 at the mast at Cardington View from the air of the crash site. ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Graf Zeppelin, filled with abundant hydrogen, circumnavigated the globe. ...
When the R101 crashed and burned, the Air Ministry ordered all R100 flights to be stopped. Three options were considered: a complete refit of R100 and continuation of tests for the eventual construction of R102; static testing of R100 and retention of about 300 staff to keep the program 'ticking over'; or retention of staff and the scrapping of the airship. Eventually it was decided to sell the R100 for scrap in November 1931. The entire framework of the ship was flattened by machinery and sold for less than £600. R101 at the mast at Cardington View from the air of the crash site. ...
Specifications
General characteristics - Crew: 37
- Capacity: 100 passengers
- Length: 719 ft 9.5 in (219 m)
- Diameter: 133 ft 4 in (41 m)
- Hydrogen capacity: 5,156,000 ft³ (146,000 m³)
- Gross lift: 350,610 lbf (1,560 tonnes)
- Weights
- Empty: 236,365 lb (107,215 kg)
- Disposable load: 114,245 lb (51,820 kg)
- Including water ballast and crew: 40,325 lb (18,290 kg)
- Fuel, oil and payload: 73,920 lb (33,530 kg)
- Powerplant: 6 Rolls Royce Condor IIIB 12 cylinder, 650 hp
- Total: 3,900 hp (2,908 kW)
Performance - Maximum speed: 81.5 mph (131 km/h)
- Still air range: 4,095 miles (6,590 km) with payload of 6,720 lb (3,050 kg)
- Endurance : 64 hours
See also For the NYC Subway car, see R33 (New York City Subway car) The R33 was a British airship that served for 10 years and survived a gale. ...
The R34 was a British airship built by Beardmore in Inchinnan, Renfrew making its first flight on the 14 March 1919. ...
The R36 (or R36 ML) is a model class of IRT cars built in 1964 by the St. ...
R38 was a British rigid airship, that was built for the US-Navy as the ZR-2. ...
The R80 was a British airship that first flew on 19th June 1920. ...
R101 at the mast at Cardington View from the air of the crash site. ...
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
Nevil Shute (London, January 17, 1899 – Melbourne, January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ...
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDI, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979) was a British scientist, engineer and inventor. ...
LZ127 Graf Zeppelin, the most travelled airship in history A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship (or dirigible) pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century based on an earlier design by David Schwarz. ...
References - Lord Ventry and Eugene Kolesnik, Airship saga: The history of airships seen through the eyes of the men who designed, built, and flew them , 1982, ISBN 0713710012
- Manfred Griehl and Joachim Dressel, Zeppelin! The German Airship Story, 1990 ISBN 1-85409-045-3
- Ces Mowthorpe, Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War, 1995 ISBN 0905-778-138
- Lord Ventry and Eugene Kolesnik, Jane's Pocket Book 7 - Airship Development, 1976 ISBN 0356-04656-7
- J.E. Morpurgo, Barnes Wallis - A Biography, Longman , 1972 ISBN 0582103606
- Neil Shute, Sliderule: Autobiography of an Engineer,William Heinemann, London 1954 ISBN 1842322915
External links - The R100 in Canada (pdf)
- Airship heritage Trust R100
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