Both were lost in the disaster (Joe Binks, G. Richmond, Assistant Director of Airship Development, and Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air. Canadian National Railways (Barry Countryman) 8 The two patriarchs of R101, prior to a flight to the Midlands: Lt Col. Introduction: Technology and the Human PsycheĢ Zeppelins in International Politics, 1919–21Ĥ Airships in International Political Competition, 1924–28ĥ International Airship Hubris and Adversity, 1928–30Ħ A Buffeting for German and American Airships, 1931–35ħ Airship Wonder Captured by Nazi Ideology, 1935–40ġ Departure of the Bodensee from Munich, bound for Berlin, 1919 (Deutsche Lufthansa) 2 The wreckage of the US Navy’s Shenandoah, 3 September 1935 3 Los Angeles over the Statue of Liberty, New York, 1925 4 The Italia landing at Seddin, near Stolp in Pomerania, on 16 April 1928, after cruising over Austria and Silesia en route to Sweden and the north 5 Dr Ludwig Dürr, Reichspresident von Hindenburg and Dr Hugo Eckener, Berlin, 1928 6 German election poster, 1924 7 R100 at St Hubert, Montreal, August 1930.
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