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R.101 airship parked in Cardington, UK. Image by the Royal Aeronautical Society

Before the Hindenburg there was R101 – Britain’s ill-fated airship

In this short video, Bill Hammack, an engineer and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, details the extraordinary making and tragic ending of the British airship known as R101. Conceived in 1924 and first flown in 1929, R101 was intended to fly a........

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