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His Majesty's airship : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine

His Majesty's airship : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine

Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953- author.
Book On CD 2023

The tragic story of the British airship R101-which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later, has been largely forgotten. S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Gwynne's chronicle features a cast of remarkable, and often tragically flawed, characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, th...

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R101 (Airship)
Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, Baron, 1875-1930
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ISBN:
9781797158129
1797158120
Edition:
Unabridged
Description:
8 audio discs (009:05:29 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
audio file
CD audio
4 3/4 in
Notes:
Read by Nicholas Boulton
Contents:
Dreams, pipe dreams, and imperial visions
Brief history of a bad idea
Night and storm
Flying death trap
"The feeling of utter loneliness"
The idea that would not die
India seems a very long way
She floats free
Trial by error
France, and the midnight hour
The perfectly safe experimental prototype
The violent, unseen world
Fools rush in
A very violent end
Solving the mystery : what caused the crash?
Bloody end of a bloody era
Control Number:
3265774
Other Authors:
Boulton, Nicholas, narrator
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