A review by ramsfan1963
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne

adventurous informative sad fast-paced

4.0

A little known piece of aviation history, the tragic efforts to make hydrogen airships a safe means of travel. Everyone knows the horrifying story of the Hindenburg crash, but little is known of the British efforts to create their own fleet of airships. R101 was the largest airship ever created, at the time, over 700 feet long, full of technological innovations and the latest in British aviation know how. Not surprisingly, this story ends in tragedy as it proved again how dangerous hydrogen airships were.