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  British Airship R101
R101 was constructed by the Royal Airship Works while a rival ship, R100, was built by a private company.
When first flown in 1929, R101 was the largest flying object ever built, with luxurious accomodations for her passengers.
In spite of the huge volume of hydrogen lifting gas she was found to be too heavy, and in 1930 the ship was lengthened to 777 feet to add an extra gas cell.
www.currell.net /models/r101.htm   (457 words)

  
 R101 - Free net encyclopedia
The R101 Airship was a British airship that crashed on October 5, 1930 in France during its maiden voyage, killing 48 people.
The stability of the R101 was doubtful, due to the insufficient span of its fins into the airstream.
The R101 departed on October 4 at 6:24 pm for its intended destination to Karachi (then part of British India) via a refuelling stop at Ismaïlia in Egypt under the command of Flight Lieutenant Carmichael Irwin.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/R101   (1029 words)

  
 R101-paints of sofeisation for protection of welded seams against corrosion!
The application of a means sofeisation R101 non-color for an internal surface of radiators of system of cooling, due to its high fluidity and penetrating ability, allows to receive strong Isolation a film proof to transformer oil.
R101, also, is successfully applied in quality the first layer of a preserving layer at presence of corrosion in cases, when it is impossible to execute grid blasting or machining of a surface.
For the period of application of a means R101 at our enterprise, at realization of the entrance control on conformity to the requirements of Specifications, any discrepancy was revealed not, that speaks about stability of quality of a material and technology of its manufacturing.
www.r101ua.narod.ru /eng.htm   (1135 words)

  
 Opal Soft Joins R101's Companies that Care Network :: Opalsoft
R101 ensures that Silicon Valley is the beneficiary of its own innovation by providing strategic eBusiness solutions to local nonprofits at no or low cost.
Through the alliance with OpalSoft, R101 will be able to reach more nonprofits more quickly, providing them with critical solutions for serving clients, scaling their operations, and reaping the economies technology provides.
R101 launched in March 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
www.opalsoft.com /news/2001_0508.htm   (585 words)

  
 Norfolk Ancestors Boulton and Paul R101
R101 would be forced to make a forced landing after only 23 hours at cruising speed.
After the Hendon flights R101 had been moved into the shed with its stern only 3 ft from the end, so that only the forward part need be moved when the ship was parted at frame 8.
The value of the work on the next two airships which was likely to come their way was possibly to be considerably less, but they were bigger ships, and there were to be two of them, and in hard times any work was very welcome.
www.norfolkancestors.org /boulton/r101.htm   (4316 words)

  
 Harry Price - The Eileen Garrett R101 Seance
It should be emphasised that her informant was speaking in his private capacity and not as an official of the department with which he is connected.
With the fate of the R38 in mind, the designer of the R101 realised that the great danger for airships lay in the inflammability of the petrol, and not chiefly of the hydrogen gas with which the gas-bags are filled.
The R101 left her shed after the modifications described above, and was taken to the mooring-tower on Wednesday, September 3oth, 1930.
www.harryprice.co.uk /Seance/Garrett/leaves-r101.htm   (4051 words)

  
 Cisco - Troubleshooting When BGP Routes Are Not Advertised
R101 is unable to announce network 172.16.10.0/24 to R102.
Confirm that R101 is not announcing 192.168.32.0/22 to R102.
R101 is configured to announce only the aggregate address to R102 using the "summary-only" attribute.
www.cisco.com /warp/public/459/bgp_noad.html   (2384 words)

  
 navgoof
R101, which first flew 14 October 1929, however could lift no more than 35 tons, and as a result had to be cut in two and lengthened to 777 feet, from its original 709 feet.
When R101 took to the skies again on 2 June 1930, a ninety-foot tear developed in the skin, and the coxswain, "Mush" Oughton, had to fight to keep it steady despite severe control difficulties.
Subjected to a chorus of criticism, the designers of R101 felt they had to demonstrate the worth of their big craft or lose their jobs.
www.navworld.com /navhistory/navgoof.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Storm Warning
His Majesty's Airship, the R101, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet.
The R101 enters the darkness of the saucer's interior, but as Tamworth prepares to march out the guard of honour, the Engineer Prime gently -- but firmly -- tells him that this will not be permitted.
Vortisaurs are sensitive to changes in Time, and as soon as the Doctor realises that he will have to return Charley to the R101 before its crash, to keep her fatal appointment with history, the vortisaur finally calms down.
www.drwhoguide.com /who_bf16.htm   (5012 words)

  
 R101: A pictorial history / Concorde: The inside story Journal of Transport History, The - Find Articles
Moreover both the Concorde and the R101 are emblematic of rich men's travel in the twentieth century and they can be seen as diversions - one might even call them false trails - from the main path of air transport development.
The R101 was conceived in the days of empire as a means of conveying government officials more expeditiously to the colonies.
It was dubbed the 'socialist' airship by the popular press, although it is hard to see what was 'socialist' about a transport mode that offered its passengers all the comforts of a luxury liner: ballroom dancing, a promenade deck and separate cabins in which to change for dinner.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3884/is_200109/ai_n8959891   (1037 words)

  
 Oxnard College - Degree Requirements
SOC R101, R102, R103, R104, R105, R106, R107, R108, R109, R110, R111, R112, R113, R114, R115, R116, R118, R121, R122
MUS R101, R102A, R102B, R102C, R102D, R103A, R103B, R104, R105, R106, R107A, R107B, R107C, R107D, R110A, R115, R116, R119, R124, R189A
SPAN R101, R101A, R101B, R102, R102A, R102B, R103, R104, R105, R107, R108, R117, R118, R120
www.oxnardcollege.edu /studentservices/degreerequirements   (465 words)

  
 Roll of Honour - Bedfordshire - Cardington - R101 Memorial
The R101 memorial can be found in the cemetery of St Mary's church which is detached from the actual church.
The R.101, larger than any other airship in the world, was built at Cardington, near Bedford, in 1930.
Documents on the R101 are held in the Public Record Office in Kew under AIR 3,5,and 11.
www.roll-of-honour.com /Bedfordshire/CardingtonR101.html   (230 words)

  
 The R100/R101 Airships Experiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The models were called the R100 (private industry) and the R101 (government).Vickers put together the design team and withdrew from the public eye at Crayford in Kent.
I am indebted to Joe Ruh for correction of a previous version in which I attributed the problems in the building of the R101 to the attempt to build hydrogen-powered engines.
The government airship R101 crashed in France killing all aboard.
www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/r100.htm   (539 words)

  
 Cardington: R101 - Digitised Resources - Bedfordshire's Virtual Library
The R101 airship was built at Cardington and made her first flight in October 1929.
The R101 plainly had significant problems but Lord Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air, insisted that the R101 be ready for a flight to India on the 4
At approximately 2 am the R101 passed over Beauvais, a French city to the north-west of Paris.
www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk /webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/cardington_digitisation_az_topics_r101.htm   (374 words)

  
 THUGEE RISING
He has decided to use the westerners own technology to throw off the colonial shackles and lead India to a resurgent Kali and return India to its proper place in the world and of course Sanji Nharr will be the leader of this new Indian regime.
The PCs are drawn to England to witness the departure of the R101.
If PCs fail to get aboard this time, their only hope is to use an airplane to try an air to air boarding (using climbing, or jumping at –3, acrobatics at –1) crew of R101 is not on guard for this and plane will not be spotted.
www.peracles-rpg.com /thugee.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | Dangerous takeoffs
Great Britain owned five, among which were the R100 and the ill-starred R101, which was 777 feet long, had a capacity of 165 tons and six engines.
The R101 was only surpassed in design by the US-owned 180 ton capacity airship equipped with eight 585-horsepower engines, each housed in a separate compartment.
The newspaper went on to report that the R101 had been flying at such a low altitude over Beauvais that "The roar of its engines had awoken all the inhabitants of the city and frightened the children.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/611/chrncls.htm   (2977 words)

  
 Rbmods.com Computer Hardware Reviews
R101 has soft touch multi function buttons for selecting Fan control and Thermal sensor.
R101 has 2 USB ports on the front panel.
R101 provides Thumb screws in order to open the side panel easily.
www.rbmods.com /Articles/3rsystem/R101/1.php   (731 words)

  
 R101
But he was soon to realize that he had unwittingly been part of a dramatic moment in psychic history.
There were conferences with aeronautieal experts, such as the designer of the R101's heavy diesel engines (which were partly responsible for the fatal crash), and with the aging but active captain of the sister-ship, R100.
The reason is that many of the scientists who risked ridicule by declaring their belief in materialized figures were equally adamant that these seance phantoms were not proof of an afterlife.
www.euro-tongil.org /swedish/english/er101.htm   (1369 words)

  
 Airship R101 Flies over Maesglas
The R101 Crashed at Beavais in France October 23erd the year 1930.
But alas this ship came to grief in an accident, in the North Sea, and was wrecked.
Tragic though it was, the British R.101 crashed at Bovaies in France.
website.lineone.net /~victor-morgan/airship.htm   (720 words)

  
 FST: Mediumship: Eileen Garrett
One of Eileen Garrett's more memorable communications, as a medium, was the case of the R101.
According to the opinion of experts, a number of observations in the message tallied in every detail with what was afterwards found in the course of the official inquiry.
Despite the wealth of information and evidence of survival which came through Eileen Garrett, she was never quite convinced that her mediumship stemmed from a separate source; an attitude which, in our opinion, made her mediumship so profoundly wonderful.
www.fst.org /garrett.htm   (1800 words)

  
 Duxford Photographs Early
History will tell us that Airship travel in the 1930's was a risky business, with the R101 crashing in France, killing all but half a dozen of its Passengers.
Left: The crashed and burnt remains of the ill-fated R101 on a mountainside in France.
Seen in one of the many hangers at Duxford airfield, a scene re-created from the first world war.
hometown.aol.com /Jubnuk/Early_Duxford_aircraft.html   (212 words)

  
 Airminded · R101, 75 years on
Set in a frame of typical English countryside beauty, R101, product of modern engineering and cornerstone of Britain’s hopes of commercial air supremacy, rides at her mast at Cardington, in Bedfordshire.
The R101 - then the largest aircraft ever constructed - crashed in stormy weather in France, early on 5 October 1930, on its way to Karachi in British India (now Pakistan).
With the onset of the Slump, and the Labour government’s political difficulties, the state-sponsored scheme to bind the Empire together by airship was difficult to sustain; after R101, it was abandoned.
airminded.org /2005/10/09/r101-75-years-on   (1914 words)

  
 Airship Navigator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When the R101 airship crashed into a hillside near Beauvais, France in October 1930, not only did the ensuing conflagration bring to an end the dreams of an Imperial airship service, it also extinguished some of the most brilliant lights in the British aviation community at that time.
Professor Simpson did a computer study of the motions of R101 under various flight conditions and leading up to the final moments before the airship crashed and exploded in flames.
The tale of the R101 is told from the point of view of the author's father and the people he knew best, the senior management at Cardington and the officers of the R100 and R101.
www.balloonlife.com /publications/balloon_life/9507/airshipn.htm   (577 words)

  
 RIGZONE - JKX Finds More Gas with Ukraine Well R101
JKX Oil & Gas has continued testing Well R101 in the northern part of the Rudenkovskoye Field at Poltava, Ukraine with the perforation of the second of the gas bearing intervals within the Tournasian sandstones.
During the initial 6-day flow test of this second interval, the well produced at a stable rate of 2.2 million cubic feet of gas and 2 barrels of condensate per day, with a wellhead flowing pressure of 820 psi through a 27/64 inch choke.
Well R101 was spudded by the N75 rig in October 2005 and suspended at a depth of 4,570m in January 2006 after encountering significantly higher than expected pressures in the deepest formation.
www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=36803   (357 words)

  
 Alibris: R101 - 0750925027
If you are not satisfied for any reason, return the item for a full refund of the item price.
His Majesty's Airship R101 was intended to be an aerial flagship, connecting the far-flung outposts of the Empire in a fraction of the time it took to make a sea voyage.
Her story is one of grand dreams and fine ideas, brilliant technology, political and romantic intrigue, human weakness, heroism and ultimate tragedy.
www.alibris.com /books/isbn/0750925027/R101   (191 words)

  
 Scarce "R101" Airship Memorial Card. 1930 (Chris Balm Early Aviation & Motoring Items)
Scarce memorial card produced in remembrance of the British R101 airship which crashed in France with the loss of 48 lives including the Air Minister, Lord Thompson and the Air Vice Marshal, Sir Sefton Brancker.
This card is printed in fl and silver, it's cover is decorated with a crucifix and flowers and bears the caption, "Thy Will Be Done".
Opposite is the text, "In sacred memory of The officers, crew and passengers of the British airship R101 which crashed in France on Sunday morning Oct. 5th 1930 with a loss of 48 lives including Lord Thompson, Air Minister and Sir Sefton Brancker, Air Vice Marshal.
www.cjbalm.com /auto-aero/aitem48.htm   (140 words)

  
 New Product Release from RMS Technologies - R101 - User-Friendly Driver at a Wallet-Friendly Price on Managing ...
Carson City, NV -November 2004-RMS Technologies, The Driving Force in Motion Control, is proud to introduce the R101 Driver/Controller.
The R101 is a bipolar driver/controller capable of output current ranging from 0.2 to 2.5 amps/phase with step resolutions from full, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8.
Yet another feature of the R101 is its ability to save all user configurable parameters to a non-volatile memory which are automatically restored after a power down power up cycle.
www.managingautomation.com /maonline/news/product/read.jspx?id=1588   (424 words)

  
 Roll of Honour - News & Reviews - The R101 Disaster - News Reports in Photographs
At the time of the R101 disaster most Daily newspapers carried artiles about the airship which included photographs and drawings.
Gibbs several of the photographs and drawings have been reproduced here.
These pictures were taken from the scrapbook of Mr Charles Earl, grandfather of Mel Gibbs of Kempston Rural, Bedford.
www.roll-of-honour.com /NewsandReviews/R101PHotographsfromtheNews.html   (84 words)

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