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| The Promenade Deck again showing the windows. Notice that the cane furniture is different to the previous shot. Possibly these photos were taken at different times and one set may have been photographer's props (AO | ||
| R100 in the double hangar at Howden. ( AO ) |
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This is the considerably less exciting, matching view with the above photo in 2003 showing The Boothferry Golf Course. The camera position and angle are the same. The slight difference is that in the 1930 photo the camera is higher. (Photo: RM 2003) |
| December 16 1929 : R100 leaves the Howden shed and flies to Cardington. Its Top speed is 81mph and it Cruises at 70mph. Performance is above specifications. |
| Early on Sunday December 16 1929 R100 is walked out of the Howden Hangar by troops of soldiers. The "air-liner" is described by the press as "A study in shimmering silver". ( OU ) |
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On December 16 1929 R100 flies. Shute said that some crew would walk from the navigator's cockpit above the nose, back up and across the top of the airship on a foot wide walkway to the tail, with their hands in their pockets. A tiny dot on this photo just up from the nose seems to show the Navigator's Cockpit. But, then again, maybe it's a fly speck. ( SR ) |
| R100 is seen here between late 1929 and June 1930. She still has her original pointed tail. ( NAMC ) |
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Squadron Leader R. S. Booth who captained R100 to Canada and back. ( OU ) |
| Inside R100's Control Car. The man on the right appears to hold a movie camera. The control wheel on the right is one of those now on display at Canadian National Aviation Museum and also at Cardington. ( NAMC ) |
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