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Aircraft & Exhibits, 1930, In Storage, 66/Y/431

Union Flag flown on the stern of Airship R. 101 when it crashed in 1930.

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Front page of "Sunday Pictorial" entitled "R101 funeral memorial number", 12 October 1930

Archives, In Storage, AC86/62/2

The R101 crash was a disaster that caused shock around the world. Many newspapers covered the mass funeral for the victims. The Sunday Pictorial (later to become The Sunday Mirror) produced a ‘R101 Funeral Memorial Number’.

Front page of newspaper image of coffins in large square hole. Guard of honour visible and priest conducting service., Trinity Mirror Group

"Thy will be done" memorial card relating to the service for the victims of the R101 airship disaster, 1930

Archives, In Storage, DC72/23

On 5 October 1930 the rigid airship R101 crashed near Beauvais in France and immediately caught fire. The largest airship in the world was reduced to a skeleton of metal. This incident happened during its maiden voyage to India which begun on 4 October 1930 from Cardington. This disaster stopped airship development in the United Kingdom, 54 men were on board the R101, six survived.

Left side of a card headed The Men Who Died and on the right side Thy Will Be Done illustrated with cross and wreath., RAF Museum

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