The British airship R101 was the “Titanic” of the skies, a steel-framed giant nearly 800 feet long. On the evening of Oct. 4, 1930, the R101 set off from Cardington, north of London, en route to an ...

“Hello, Airplanes?” quips the titular spy of “Archer,” the FX animated series. “It’s blimps. You win.” That 2010 episode of the series, “Skytanic,” reflects the modern scorn heaped on those who ...

Aviators and those readers intrigued by the airships of the 1920s and ’30s will thoroughly enjoy S.C. Gwynne’s newest tome, “His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest ...

Historian Gwynne (Empire of the Summer Moon) delivers a fascinating account of the bad decisions, distractions, naivete, and sheer incompetence behind the crash of the massive British airship R101 in ...

For Americans, the Hindenburg is perhaps the definitive image of crashing and burning. But the fiery crash of the British airship R101, seven years earlier, killed more people. Forty-eight lives were ...