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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16 sectionsContents
- 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
- External links
'''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.