R100

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Aircraft.name: HM Airship R100
Aircraft.image: R100.jpg
Aircraft.caption: R100 at its mooring mast in St. Hubert, Quebec, Canada, July 1930
Aircraft.aircraft_role: Passenger airship
Aircraft.national_origin: United Kingdom
Aircraft.manufacturer: Vickers
Aircraft.civil_registration: G-FAAV
Aircraft.first_flight: 16 December 1929
Aircraft.number_built: 1

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Background
Design and development
Airframe
Propulsion
Passenger and crew accommodation
Operational history
First flights
Transatlantic voyage to Canada
The end of the British airships
Specifications (as first flight)
See also
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
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'''His Majesty's Airship R100''' was a privately designed and built British rigid airship made as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire 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.

R100 was built by the Airship Guarantee Company, a specially created subsidiary of the armaments firm Vickers-Armstrongs, led by Commander Dennis Burney. The design team was headed by Barnes Wallis, later famous for his invention of the bouncing bomb. The design team also included Nevil Shute Norway as the senior stress engineer.