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General websites

National Archives Your Archives
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=
R.101_Airship_Disaster

Century of Flight
http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/coming%20of%20age/R101%20disaster.htm

Google Timeline
Linking to websites, newspaper articles and more about the R101
http://ww w.google.co.uk/search?q=r101+airship&hl=en&tbs=
tl:1&tbo=u&ei=8PyQS67tAZSy0gTo1OXfDA&sa=X&oi=timeline_result
&ct=title&resnum=11&ved=0CDcQ5wIwCg

R101 on Bedford Borough Council Website
Article about the R101 from conception to destruction.
http://www.bedford.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/
local_history_and_heritage/airship_r100_and_r101.aspx

The Airship Heritage Trust
http://www.aht.ndirect.co.uk/airships/r101/index.html

Wikipedia Entry
Be aware that this is created and edited by enthusiasts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101

All Experts Encyclopaedia
http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/r/r/r101.htm

Curlys Airships Site
http://www.curlysairships.com/contents.html

Cranfield University Airships and Material from the Archive
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/library/cranfield/about/archive/
airships/page28823.html

Bedford and District Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
http://www.bedfordraob.org.uk/r101/r101.htm

R101 - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/shelves/r101/

R101 Roll of Honour
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/CardingtonR101.html

Britain From Above
Features images of the R101 airship on her 1929 test flight
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/

Documents related to the R101

R101 Flight to India - Notes for the Press 1st October 1930
http://www.airshipsonline.com/learn/Press%20Releases/R101/
R101%20Main%20index.htm

New Statesman Departmental Correspondence after the crash
http://yourdemocracy.newstatesman.com/parliament/airship-r101-departmental-correspondence/HAN8481395

The Official Report of the Inquiry (March 1931)
http://www.bedfordraob.org.uk/r101/pdfs/
report_of_r101_inquiry.pdf

R101 Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6284831383

R101 Videos

YouTube
Footage of the construction of the R101, preparation for the flight and the initial moments of the flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb2oS4dShJo

YouTube
Original footage of the maiden flight and crash scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdPrUBkMgdE

You Tube
British Pathe footage of the flight and crash scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJN9huQpJcU

YouTube
Interview with an eye witness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckfYmmtnTAA

Airships Blog
http://www.airships.net/blog/film-british-dirigible-r101

Royal Airship Works - Cardington, Bedford

BBC History of Airships
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A954678

Cardington Airship Hangars
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/
engineeringItem.asp?id=514

Cardington Airship Hangars Virtual Library
http://virtual-library.culturalservices.net/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/
0.digitised_resources/cardington_airships.htm

The British Imperial Airship Scheme

Ask Jeeves Answer
http://uk.ask.com/wiki/Imperial_Airship_Scheme?qsrc=3044

Boulton and Paul

Boulton and Paul were the Norfolk based company that manufactured the R101.

Norfolk Ancestors
http://www.norfolkancestors.org/boulton/r101.htm

Wolverhampton University
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/planes/
boultonPaul.htm

Wikipedia
Be aware that this is created and edited by enthusiasts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Aircraft

William Beardmore and Company

Beardmore were the Glasgow based company that built the R101 engine.

All Experts Encyclopaedia
http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/w/wi/
william_beardmore_and_company.htm

Wapedia
http://wapedia.mobi/en/William_Beardmore_and_Company

Graces Guide The Best of British Engineering
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/William_Beardmore_and_Co

Red Clydeside
William Beardmore the man.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/redclyde/redcly125.htm

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