Lots of beautiful pictures (more than 250). Many of them never published elsewhere in other books. This book relates the success of the first airship, the R-100, and the failure of the second, the R-101. Battle between airships R-100 and R-100 The catastrophe of the R-101 crash in France had as huge a media fallout in this country as in England. Although relatively short, the life spans of the R-100 and R-101 reflected an entire decade of innovation in the history of aviation