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R38-class airship

Index R38-class airship

The R38 class (also known as the A class) of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War, intended for long-range patrol duties over the North Sea. [1]

50 relations: Airship, Airship N.S.11 crash, Akron-class airship, Alfred Pippard, August 23, Dixmude (airship), Edward Maitland (RAF officer), George Herbert Scott, H-class blimp, Hilda Lyon, Hull General Cemetery, Humber, J. E. M. Pritchard, Jack Irving, Joy Bright Hancock, Lakehurst Maxfield Field, Large aircraft, List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft before 1925, List of aircraft by tail number, List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, List of aircraft structural failures, List of airship accidents, List of airships of the United States Navy, List of British airships, List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll, List of military aircraft of the United States (naval), List of Zeppelins, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Pulham St Mary, R100, R101, R31-class airship, R36 (airship), R38 (disambiguation), R80 (airship), Rigid airship, RNAS Howden, Short Brothers, Sunbeam Cossack, Timeline of US Navy airship units (pre-WWII), U.S. Army airships, United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, USS Akron (ZRS-4), USS Princess Matoika, W. D. Oddy & Company, Zeppelin, ZR, 1921, 1921 in aviation, 1921 in the United Kingdom.

Airship

An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power.

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Airship N.S.11 crash

The Airship NS11 crash was an airship accident which occurred on 15 July 1919.

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Akron-class airship

The Akron-class airships were a class of two rigid airships constructed for the US Navy in the early 1930s.

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Alfred Pippard

Alfred John Sutton Pippard MBE FRS (6 April 1891 – 2 November 1969) was a British civil engineer and academic.

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August 23

No description.

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Dixmude (airship)

The Dixmude was a Zeppelin airship built for the Imperial German Navy as L 72 (c/n LZ 114) and not completed until after the end of the First World War, when it was given to France as war reparation and recommissioned in French Navy service and renamed Dixmude.

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Edward Maitland (RAF officer)

Air Commodore Edward Maitland Maitland, (21 February 1880 – 24 August 1921) was an early military aviator who served in the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.

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George Herbert Scott

Major George Herbert "Lucky Breeze" Scott, CBE, AFC, (25 May 1888 – 5 October 1930) was a noted British airship pilot and engineer.

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H-class blimp

The H class blimp was an observation airship built for the U.S. Navy in the early 1920s.

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Hilda Lyon

Hilda Lyon, ARAeS (1896–1946) was a British engineer who invented the "Lyon Shape", a streamlined design used for airships and submarines.

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Hull General Cemetery

Hull General Cemetery was established in 1847 on Spring Bank, in the west of Kingston upon Hull by a private company.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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J. E. M. Pritchard

John Edward Maddock Pritchard, OBE, AFC was a British military officer who served in the RNAS, commanding non-rigid airships, and later in the Royal Air Force.

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Jack Irving

John Samuel Irving (1880-1953) MIAE was a British automobile engineer best known for designing the Irving-Napier land speed record breaking car Golden ArrowCaptain J. S. Irving.

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Joy Bright Hancock

Joy Bright Hancock (4 May 1898 – 20 August 1986), a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, was one of the first women officers of the United States Navy.

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Lakehurst Maxfield Field

Lakehurst Maxfield Field, formerly known as Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (NAES Lakehurst), is the naval component of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL), a United States Air Force–managed joint base headquartered approximately east-southeast of Trenton in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

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Large aircraft

Large aircraft allow the transportation of large and/or heavy payloads over long distances.

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List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft before 1925

This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

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List of aircraft by tail number

This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number).

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List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm

This is a list of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).

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List of aircraft structural failures

The list of aircraft accidents and incidents caused by structural failures summarizes notable accidents and incidents such as the 1933 United Airlines Chesterton Crash due to a bombing and a 1964 B-52 test that landed after the vertical stabilizer broke off.

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List of airship accidents

The following is a partial list of airship accidents.

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List of airships of the United States Navy

List of airships of the United States Navy identifies the airships of the United States Navy by type, identification, and class.

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List of British airships

Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France.

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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll

The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war but including acts of terrorism) which relate to the United Kingdom since 1801, or the states that preceded it (England and Wales and Scotland before 1707, Ireland and Great Britain from 1707 to 1800), or involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.

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List of military aircraft of the United States (naval)

This list of military aircraft of the United States (naval) includes prototype, pre-production and operational types designations under the 1922 United States Navy aircraft designation system, which was used by the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard.

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List of Zeppelins

This is a complete list of Zeppelins constructed by the German Zeppelin companies from 1900 until 1938.

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LZ 129 Hindenburg

LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the ''Hindenburg'' class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.

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Pulham St Mary

Pulham St Mary is a village in Norfolk, approximately east of Diss and south of Norwich.

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R100

His Majesty's Airship R100, known simply as R100, was a privately designed and built British rigid airship made as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire routes as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme.

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R101

R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire.

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R31-class airship

The R31 class of British rigid airships was constructed in the closing months of World War I and comprised two aircraft, His Majesty's Airship R31 and R32.

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R36 (airship)

R36 was a British airship designed during World War I, but not completed until after the war.

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R38 (disambiguation)

R38 may refer to.

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R80 (airship)

The R80 was a British rigid airship, first flown on 19 July 1920 and the first fully streamlined airship to be built in Britain.

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Rigid airship

A rigid airship is a type of airship (or dirigible) in which the envelope is supported by an internal framework rather than by being kept in shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope, as in blimps (also called pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships.

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RNAS Howden

RNAS Howden (later RAF Howden) was an airship station near the town of Howden south-east of York, England.

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Short Brothers

Short Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Sunbeam Cossack

The Sunbeam Cossack was a British 12-cylinder aero engine that was first run in 1916.

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Timeline of US Navy airship units (pre-WWII)

Unlike later blimp squadrons, which contained several airships, the large rigid airship units consisted of a single airship and, in the case of the USS Akron and USS Macon, a small contingent of fixed-wing aircraft.

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U.S. Army airships

Between 1908 and 1937 the U.S. Army had a program to operate airships.

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United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May

United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May (TRACENCM) is the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps and is the Coast Guard's only enlisted accession point and recruit training center, located on 1 Munro Avenue, Cape May, New Jersey.

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USS Akron (ZRS-4)

USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy which operated between September 1931 and April 1933.

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USS Princess Matoika

USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. Before the war, she was a that sailed as SS Kiautschou for the Hamburg America Line and as SS Princess Alice (sometimes spelled Prinzess Alice) for North German Lloyd.

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W. D. Oddy & Company

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Zeppelin

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.

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ZR

Zr, symbol of chemical element Zirconium ZR, Zr, or zr may also refer to.

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1921

No description.

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1921 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1921.

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1921 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

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British airship R38, HM Airship R38, HMA R.38, Hull ZR2 Air Disaster, R-38 airship, R38, R38 (ZR-2), R38 class airship, ZR-2.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship

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