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Constructed at the former RNAS Station at Howden in Yorkshire, the Vickers-built competitor flew to Cardington on its maiden flight in the morning of 16 December, 1916. At the huge {surviving} hangars in Bedfordshire England, two teams, the other led by the Air Ministry, competed to prove their impressive craft capable of flying from the UK to India.
As with the later Concorde, the goal to eventually offer a regular and comfortable trans-Atlantic service. Soon after 1920, Vickers' experts had calculated that the fare on an airship journey might be £45 in comparison with a contemporary airliner fare of £115 and that the non-stop range of an airship would be far superior, making the journey times by the alternative modes quite competitive.
As part of its trials the R.100 made a trans-Atlantic trip to Canada in July 1930 averaging 42 mph. The swifter return flight, in 58 rather than 78 hours, began on 13 August reaching Cardington on 16 August 1930. It could carry 100 passengers at 80 mph (128 km/h).
When the R.101 crashed and burned the Air Ministry ordered all R.100 flights to be stopped and eventually decided to sell the R.100 for scrap in November 1931.
The Vickers R.100 team, known as the Airship Guarantee Company, included Nevil Shute, as a stress engineer, and one of the finest aircraft engineers in history, Sir Barnes WallisSir Barnes Neville Wallis FRS, commonly known as Barnes Wallis ( September 26 1887 October 30, 1979) was a British scientist, engineer and inventor. He is most well known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force on Operation Chastise to.
The tale of the design of the R.100 and its supposed superiority to the R.101 is told in Shute's Slide Rule: the autobiography of an engineer, which was first published in 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati. In reality the ship had several flaws which would have been too expensive to repair such as the need to reinforce the outer covering which was damaged from flapping caused by the widely spaced frames so prominent in the design, and a problem with the tail design which created a strong vacum that actually destroyed the tail-cone of the ship prior to her Atlantic crossing.
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