R101 Airship 

The Empire of the Clouds!!!

This is where The Eighth Doctor met Charley… and caused a whole lot of problems that would bit him done the line.

Iron maiden brought me here

I wish the British had allowed the R100 to continue to operate. I like the mooring mast "boarding tower"... They had a lot of good ground handling equipment ideas for their proposed airship program.

R101 was the actual Titanic of the skies.British built,the largest and crashed on its maiden voyage. Just like the ship.

@2:13 what a sound! Imagine that going over your house at 200'!

Interesting to hear the engine noise in the background. I have always wondered what the engines of the huge rigid airships sounded like. BBC Radio did an excellent serial called The Magic Carpet, about the R100 and R101 projects, and that had a sound effect of the airships' engines. They probably used the same one for R100 and R101, although they had different types of engine.

I had no idea,,a man was inside the engine spots,,, good job😬🤘

I love it! The R101's my favourite airship.

90 years on, we, The R.A.O.B., would have been holding the memorial service for the crew and passengers today. due to the covid crisis, we cannot do this.

"..... We are on our way tonight..."

My Great Auntie is almost 100, she said she saw it fly over and children ran inside from the sound. What a time...

The press of the time praised the slow speed of the maiden flight for maintaining the comfort of the passengers. The truth was that she could not fly any faster, being forced to use 4 engines of 585 hp instead of the designed 6x 650hp.

It would be great to see a dirigible with modern technology such as carbon fiber, state of the art computors with vector thrust engines, modern avionics. I think it would be a workable design..

Storm Warning brought me here

GOD BLESS THEM

Great video.

What do a bunch of turkeys have to do with British aeronautical innovation,though? I didn't think they could even fly.

Same

Battlefield 1

Overweight and underpowered engines, overweight frame,and a poor outer covering led to her to disaster

Who is this guy narrating? He sounds so unenthused, and utterly unprepared for his lines, lmao.