Give it some welly

摘要

As investigators sifted through the grim wreckage of the R101, it was clear that Britain's airship industry had come to a tragic end. Built by the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, near Bedford, the 731ft long colossus embarked on a headline-grabbing flight on October 5,1930, only to strike a hillside near Beauvais in France. Seven people miraculously survived the disaster, but 47 perished. Competing with the state-financed R101 was the private venture R100, built at Howden on Humberside, which had shown great promise.