British airship scrapped in January 1931. Often referred to as the "capitalists ship" it was Vicker's answer to the competition of the Cardington Royal Airship Works R101.
She made one trans-Atlantic flight.
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Airship destroyed the early morning of October 5, 1930 with the loss of 48 out 54 aboard. Her destruction heralded the end of the British airship program.
Designed and constructed by the Royal Airship Works, Cardington.
777 ft in length (originally 732 ft)
132 ft diameter
5,500,000: cubic feet
volume: (originally 5,000,000)
Number of flights: 40
Total flight time: 127 hours 20 minutes
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