Airships R-100 and R-101

From the regional perspective, the flight of the R-100 was the biggest tourist event in the communities of the Montreal South Shore. From the provincial perspective, it was no less important than Expo 67. In terms of technological challenge, however, the interest was worldwide. The catastrophe of the R-101 crash in France had as huge a Although relatively short, the life spans of the R-100 and R-101 reflected an entire decade of innovation in the history of aviation. As a majestic spectacle, a technological breakthrough and a media event, the history of the R-100, that beautiful silver aerial ship, the Titanic of the sky, is all of that and much more… This book relates the success of the first airship, the R-100, and the failure of the second, the R-101.