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To help those understand that airship's do not follow the normal rules of flight as is understood with heavier than aircraft, we have put together a centre for documents and items to help with reference questions.We also provide details of further reading open to researchers in our Online Reference Library.

Most of the documents below have come from original sources, the Airship Heritage Trust archive or from new information gathered from researching records in the National Archives in London, and have often been omitted from books on the subject.

General Reference	Historical Documentation	R.100 Reference	R.101 Reference
Essential Reading Booklist / Research Library	British Airship Pilots Licence Test (1930)	Planned improvements to R.100 (1930) and continuity policy from August 1930 - research from the National Archive and AHT Archives	R101 Passenger List
Top 10 Worst Airship Accidents Globally	Naming of the R100 and R101 - reproduced from the National Archives, London (transcript of the National Archives file AIR 2/399)	R.100 Canada Flight Crew List	R101 Crash page - full details of the final flights of the R101 including movies and graphics of the R101 crash.
Lighter than Air Frequently Asked Questions - list of answers about airships and lighter than air travel	Imperial Airship Scheme plans and map (1926)	R.100 Flight Log	R.101 - copy of the final flight certificate. An copy of the certificate for the altered ship. (Requires Adobe Acrobat to read)
Airship Size Comparison Chart - compare the scale of modern airships from Skyships and Airlander to the R101	Airship Crew Organisaion Chart How the airship crew was structured	Press Release for the R100 flight to Canada: Full reproduction of information in the R100's press pack 1930	R.101 Flight Log
23X Class Ships detailed - the expanded research area previously serialized in "Dirigible" Magazine 2015/2016 - extensive research by Kent O'Grady	Docking Rafts for Rigid Airships. Taken from a book in 1929 along with photos from the AHT archives, the plans could have referred to as the "Cardington Mobile Mast"	Nevile Shute Norway's R100 Canada flight notes *New* reproduced with kind permission from Royal Aeronautical Society	Press Release for R.101 flight to India: Full reproduction of information in the the R101's press pack October 1930.
	Airship Timeline: compare the lifespan of the ships	"Airship Venture" *New* a 17 page article by Nevil Shute Norways explainling details of the R.100 from Blackwoods Magazine Published May 1933	R.101 Crew Biographies : Full details of each crew member and photos
	Requirements for the setting up and operational requirements of an Airship Station (1930) Document from the AHT archives		R.101 - Public Inquiry Original Copy Document Full reproduction of information in the the R101 public Inquiry March 1931.
			R.101 Broken Elevator Cable - Dr Bryan Lawton's 2018 research paper explaining the R101 control response at the time of the crash.

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