The British airship R101 was the “Titanic” of the skies, a steel-framed giant nearly 800 feet long. On the evening of Oct. 4, 1930, the R101 set off from Cardington, north of London, en route to an ...

Aviators and those readers intrigued by the airships of the 1920s and ’30s will thoroughly enjoy S.C. Gwynne’s newest tome, “His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest ...

For Americans, the Hindenburg is perhaps the definitive image of crashing and burning. But the fiery crash of the British airship R101, seven years earlier, killed more people. Forty-eight lives were ...

The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen explores the engineering, design, and operational realities of airships, from rigid ...

Rats leave a sinking ship, but in the smoldering wreckage of the British airship R-101 a host of rats was found swarming soon after the crash at Beauvais, France. Rats like the banana oil smell and ...