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R100
His Majesty's Airship R100 was a privately designed and built British rigid airship made as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire routes as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. The other airship, the R101, was built by the British Air Ministry, but both airships were funded by the Government. R100 was built by the Airship Guarantee Company, a specially created subsidiary of the armaments firm Vickers-Armstrongs, led by Commander Dennis Burney. The design team was headed by Barnes Wallis, later famous for his invention of the bouncing bomb. The design team also included Nevil Shute Norway as the senior stress engineer. R100 first flew in December 1929. It made a series of trial flights and a successful return crossing of the Atlantic in July–August 1930, but following the crash of R101 in October 1930 the Imperial Airship Scheme was terminated and R100 was broken up for scrap. Background R100 was built as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Aircraft
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within Wikimedia project, sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by ''Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennistoun Burney
Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, 2nd Baronet (28 December 1888 – 11 November 1968, in Bermuda) was an English aeronautical engineer, private inventor and Conservative Party politician.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Oxford: OUP. Early military career Burney was the son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney Bt. He was given a naval education, starting his training at HMS ''Britannia'' in 1903, and joining the battleship ''Exmouth'' as a midshipman in early 1905. He was posted to the destroyer HMS ''Crusader'' in 1909, which was being used for experimental anti-submarine work at the time. In 1911, he came up with a novel seaplane design using a hydrofoil undercarriage. Further development was carried out by the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company and two prototype designs, the X.2 and X.3, were produced, but were unsuccessful. On the outbreak of World War I, Burney was given command of the destroyer HMS ''Velox'', but shortly afterwards joined the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geodesic Airframe
A geodetic airframe is a type of construction for the airframes of aircraft developed by United Kingdom, British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis in the 1930s (who sometimes spelt it "geodesic"). Earlier, it was used by Prof. Schütte for the Schütte Lanz Airship SL 1 in 1909. It makes use of a space frame formed from a spirally crossing basket-weave of load-bearing members.Buttler, p.93 The principle is that two geodesic, geodesic arcs can be drawn to intersect on a curving surface (the fuselage) in a manner that the Torsion (mechanics), torsional load on each cancels out that on the other.Buttler, p.94 Early examples The "diagonal rider" structural element was used by Joshua Humphreys in the Original six frigates of the United States Navy, first US Navy sail frigates in 1794. Diagonal riders are viewable in the interior hull structure of the preserved USS Constitution, USS ''Constitution'' on display in Boston Harbor. The structure was a pioneering example of placing "no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duralumin
Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age hardening, age-hardenable aluminium–copper alloys. The term is a combination of ''Düren'' and ''aluminium'' . Its use as a trade name is obsolete. Today the term mainly refers to aluminium-copper alloys, designated as the 2000 series by the international alloy designation system (IADS), as with 2014 aluminium alloy, 2014 and 2024 aluminium alloy, 2024 alloys used in airframe fabrication. Duralumin was developed in 1909 in Germany. Duralumin is known for its strength and hardness, making it suitable for various applications, especially in the aviation and aerospace industry. However, it is susceptible to corrosion, which can be mitigated by using alclad-duralum materials. History Duralumin was developed by the German metallurgist Alfred Wilm at private military-industrial laboratory (Center for Scientific-Technical Research) in Neubabelsberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R38 Class Airship
The ''R.38'' class (also known as the ''A'' class) of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War, intended for long-range patrol duties over the North Sea. Four similar airships were originally ordered by the British Admiralty, Admiralty, but orders for three of these (''R.39'', ''R.40'' and ''R.41'') were cancelled after the armistice with Germany and ''R.38'', the lead ship of the class, was sold to the United States Navy in October 1919 before completion. On 24 August 1921, ''R.38'' (designated ZR-2 by the USN) was destroyed by a structural failure while in flight over the city of Kingston upon Hull, Hull. It crashed into the Humber, Humber Estuary, killing 44 out of the 49 crew aboard and one black cat named Snowball. At the time of its first flight it was the world's largest airship. Its destruction was the first of the great airship disasters, followed by the Italian-built US semi-rigid airship ''Roma (airship), R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R100 Moored At Cardington (Our Generation, 1938)
R1, R.I., R01 or R-1 may refer to: Biology * R1 plasmid, a plasmid found in E Coli * ATC code R01 ''Nasal preparations'', a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * Haplogroup R1 (Y-DNA), a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup * The R1 vein in insect wings Computing * DeepSeek-R1, an open-source large language model released by DeepSeek in January 2025 * R1 (expert system), a 1978 expert system written by John McDermott * .r01, a RAR file extension * an alternate name for the Rice Institute Computer, an innovative computer extant at Rice University from 1959 to 1971 Military equipment * R-1 tank, a Romanian tank from World War II * R-1 (missile), a post World War II Russian rocket * AEG R.I, a 1918 German super-heavy bomber design * DFW R.I, a 1916 German prototype bomber aircraft * HMS Caprice, a destroyer originally designated with Pennant Number R01 * Linke-Hofmann R.I, a World War I German prototype bomber aircraft * Polikarpov R-1, a Sov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duralumin
Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age hardening, age-hardenable aluminium–copper alloys. The term is a combination of ''Düren'' and ''aluminium'' . Its use as a trade name is obsolete. Today the term mainly refers to aluminium-copper alloys, designated as the 2000 series by the international alloy designation system (IADS), as with 2014 aluminium alloy, 2014 and 2024 aluminium alloy, 2024 alloys used in airframe fabrication. Duralumin was developed in 1909 in Germany. Duralumin is known for its strength and hardness, making it suitable for various applications, especially in the aviation and aerospace industry. However, it is susceptible to corrosion, which can be mitigated by using alclad-duralum materials. History Duralumin was developed by the German metallurgist Alfred Wilm at private military-industrial laboratory (Center for Scientific-Technical Research) in Neubabelsberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston Upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a historic maritime city and unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea. It is a tightly bounded city which excludes the majority of its suburbs, with a population of (), it is the fourth-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The built-up area has a population of 436,300. Hull has more than 800 years of seafaring history and is known as Yorkshire's maritime city. The town of Wyke on Hull was founded late in the 12th century by the monks of Meaux Abbey as a port from which to export their wool. Renamed ''Kings-town upon Hull'' in 1299, Hull had been a market town, military supply port, trading centre, fishing and whaling centre and industrial metropolis. Hull was an early theatre of battle in the First English Civil War, English Civil Wars. Its 18th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the city of York. The south-west of Yorkshire is densely populated, and includes the cities of Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Doncaster and Wakefield. The north and east of the county are more sparsely populated, however the north-east includes the southern part of the Teesside conurbation, and the port city of Kingston upon Hull is located in the south-east. York is located near the centre of the county. Yorkshire has a Yorkshire Coast, coastline to the North Sea to the east. The North York Moors occupy the north-east of the county, and the centre contains the Vale of Mowbray in the north and the Vale of York in the south. The west contains part of the Pennines, which form the Yorkshire Dales in the north-west. The county was historically borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNAS Howden
RNAS Howden (later RAF Howden) was an airship station near the town of Howden south-east of York, England. History It was opened in March 1916 to cover the East Coast ports shipping from attacks by German U-boats during the World War I, First World War, with its first airship, the Coastal class blimp, Coastal-class non-rigid airship arriving on 26 June 1916. From 1916 to 1918 Howden was a Royal Naval Air Service establishment, with the base transferring to the Royal Air Force when it was established on 1 April 1918. While airships flew on patrols from Howden until the end of the war, Howden-based airships never engaged in direct combat with German submarines. The station remained operational after the end of the war, with operations continuing to support minesweeping operations over the North Sea. A new hangar, at the time the largest in the world, was completed in 1919. The No.2 Double Rigid Shed measured in length and clearance height. In 1921, the rigid airship R38 cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNAS
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air force. It was replaced by the Fleet Air Arm, initially consisting of those RAF units that normally operated from ships, but emerging as a separate unit similar to the original RNAS by the time of the Second World War. History Background On 21 July 1908 Captain Reginald Bacon, who was a member of the Aerial Navigation Sub-Committee, submitted to the First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher that a rigid airship based on the German Zeppelin be designed and constructed by the firm of Vickers. After much discussion on the Committee of Imperial Defence the suggestion was approved on 7 May 1909. Though Bacon had been intended as the Superintendent of Construction, his departure f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CP Steamship, R-100 Passing The Harbour Bridge, Montreal 1930
CP, cp. or its variants may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Cariyapitaka (Cp), a canonical Buddhist story collection * The Canadian Press, a Canadian news agency * Child pornography * ''The Christian Post'', an American newspaper * Competitive programming * ''Club Penguin'', a now defunct online multiplayer game * Combat power, used in Pokémon Go to indicate how strong a Pokémon is in battle Enterprises Transportation companies * Canadian Airlines (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP) * Canadian Pacific Railway, reporting mark CP * Central Pacific Railroad, a network of lines between California and Utah, US * , a French public railway company * , a Portuguese state-owned train company * CP Air or Canadian Pacific Air Lines (1942–1987), a Canadian airline * CP Ships, a Canadian shipping company, part of TUI Group * Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong–based major airline Other enterprises * C.P. Company, an Italian apparel brand * Cedar Point, an amusement park in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
