Airship R100 was a privately built rigid British 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. R100 was built by the Airship Guarantee Company, a specially-created subsidiary of the armaments firm, Vickers-Armstrongs, with a design team headed by Barnes Wallis and also included Nevil Shute Norway as the senior stress engineer. R100 first flew in November 1929. It made a series of trial flights and a successful return crossing of the Atlantic in July–August 1930.
R100 Airship
