Lord Thompson's rug really pulls that lounge together

Stunning video of the huge R101. As a Bedfordian I can remember standing on the wall of our front garden in Brickhill and gazing at the two huge hangars in Cardington, always fascinated me. In 93 my Dad and I managed to get a tour through one of them, it was like a massive cathedral. My Dad remembers seeing the R101 flying over Bedford as always remarks on it unique engine note as she used diesel propulsion. What I love about these two clips, R100 and R101, is the computer renderings give a far better idea how good looked on board as opposed to the dull black and white images, they look spacious and bright.

If I was a billionaire, this would be one of my fantasies, to some how have huge airships cruising the word for people who want to do casual sight seeing. I love seeing the interior. Great job on this!

"[The smoking room] was deemed safe, because the floors & ceilings were made of asbestos" Ahh, the good ol' days! I wonder if you had as much fun writing & saying that line as I had hearing it.

Brilliant, that was the best way of showing the layout of the R101 I have seen and has been well worth the wait, thank you.

Wow. Just wow. What a magnificent job you've done of recreating the experience of being on the R101. Thank you. Thank you ever so much!

The government asked too much by expecting to send its new ship all the way to India. She only had one 16 hr. trial flight. Officials sent the ship out in poor weather, because the Imperial Conference was in session in London. She had to get to India and back as a demonstration while the conference was still in session. The trial flights planned by the captain had never been carried out. Thanks for making this terrific video about this great ship. RIP to the passengers and crew who died because of the poor decisions of others. (Info from Rosendahl 1938)

Enjoyable walk through the corridors of history.

Wow finally!! Thank you!

I love these airship walkthroughs

It's incredible that something like this was ever created and worked at all. I wish I had a time machine, not to go back to the 20s, but to go back to the 3rd century BC to show Archimedes just what was going to eventually happen.

Beautiful! With safety lessons learned, and modern materials and weather monitoring, I do hope they bring these back one day.

Magnificent! I hope you make more models of those 3d interiors of airships! :)

Your videos on the R-100 & 101 are very clear & informative & thanks to these 3D renderings I can finally visualise the interior spaces & compare them to the Hindenburg Class. If you ever get time I’d like to see similar videos for the LZ 126 & 127 Los Angeles & Graf Zeppelin.

Always thought bigger control car that included the navigation and wireless rooms would have made more sense - better communication between them and the officer on watch - and easier for the navigator to see where they were !

Excellent video...incredible graphics.

I can highly recommend visiting the Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany, to anone who wants to experience an airship interior like this in real life.

I‘d like to mention Bill Hammack‘s (The Engineering Guy) „Fatal Flight“ book and Podcast (read by the author). Many thanks to creators for this marvelous tour!

Would really love to travel across the ocean on one of these. What an experience that would be!!

It would be so amazing if we could explore these airships in VR.

Even the hangars were a sight to behold! I've been thru the remaining Tillamook OR hangar, built back in the '30's for airships, amazing! It's lesser drag V. earlier skinnier Zeps interests me, a bit "plumper" is less drag, also giving more interior volume. Too bad it was a total pig once airborne!

Just read a book about Boulton and Paul in Norwich the R101 frames were constructed in their factory at Norwich and sent to Cardington for assembly. The original entrance to the factory still exists, and is the entry to the block of flats my grandson lives in.

Such a wonderful way to travel albeit with the associated dangers, my father told me when the R101 went down the whole nation rose up in mourning church bells were rung and schools closed. It was a national disaster, He told me he manage to get a trip on the R34 airship, bet that was a very good memory.

Fascinating….spectacular graphics and excellent presentation! (new subscriber, Virginia)

Wow. Just wow...

The vintage map of the "British Empire" is hilarious. In 1924, Canada had been a nation (no longer a colony) for 57 years; it's still in the "British Empire" on the map, but only the eastern part... even in 1924, Canada stretched from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic, extending thousands of kilometres beyond the range shown, so Ottawa wasn't a "far corner" of anything. The intention seems to have been to limit operations to coastal areas - replacing travel by ship, with overland travel continuing by train - so this makes sense, but that hardly covers the far corners of the Empire.

This is so well done! And fascinating. Thank you!

This is an amazing review on the R-101. I've just finished Final Flight, an account of the work on, and fatal voyage of, this amazing airship. It's great to see the ship in such detail. Thanks to you for doing this video and to Marshall Young for providing such rich graphics!

Wonderful, very wonderful indeed, it always amuses me how this giant of the skies could have been, alas, it's now only a majestic mark left behind in history..

Lord Thomson's rug really tied the room together.

Wow! Hopefully we solve all the problems that we didn't solve way back then....and touring the world by airship because a reality again!

a fascinating era of flying that only a few could experience.

Thank you for posting this

For a compelling read about this airship try "Fatal Flight: The True Story of the Britain's Last Great Airship" by Bill Hammack

That was fascinating, thank you!

you did it! thanks so much!

oh cool i can listen to music while im eating!

I wondered about the interior layout on these. Thank you!

To me, it's interesting that, given the length of the airship, they didn't extend the passenger areas, including the dining room, salon, smoking room and passenger cabins along the outer hull of the airship, to maximize the view (which, to me, would have been the selling point of this mode of travel), and use the inner parts for ballast, gas, storage, etc. There must have been an engineering reason for this, as other passenger airships had a similar layout. I get that the idea was that most passengers would spend their time in common areas rather than in a sparse cabin, but that seems more like marketing backfill.

Fantastic video thank you 😊

5:59 ah yes the famously safe material known as asbestos... Ooof

Fantastic! Please inquire if the artist can port this to a virtual reality experience using something like Unreal Engine.

"It was safe because the walls were made of asbestos" is an unusual sentence.

3:45 ...it really ties the room together

I was always in awe as my first year junior teacher .Had watched the R101 fly over her and her classmates hockey filed as a girl .

Looking at photographs of the control cars being assembled, I find it difficult to imagine working in the small space between the wall and the massive Tornado diesel. The noise, heat and smell must have been terrific and the dizzying ladder up to the ship, even a relief.

Those illustrations really make it look much nicer than it looks in the photographs. Traveling on that airship looks like traveling in a run-down prison. While I’m sure looking at the ground go slowly by might have been entertaining for an hour or two, the sheer boredom of being trapped in that tiny space with absolutely nothing to do for days at a time must have been awful. At least on a boat you had multiple large and small spaces where all manner of activities could be held, as well as decent kitchens and well-appointed cabins. On an airship, you had…a smoking room.

IRON MAIDEN - EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS brought me here

I would have loved a small recap of the ending for r101. Never heard of it before and video condensed it to "we all know what happened, it didn't reach xx"

Brings a new meaning to “two blokes in a shed” 😂

Really well done video.

It's Cloud Nine Thousand for an airship aficionado. Super delightful job - a hearty and bombastic bravo! And now, a couple of questions. The smallest and centrally located of the crew's quarters, the one with the fewest bunks - would this be for Captain Carmichael Irwin and his officers? (I don't seem to see a separate room for the Captain in the delineations.) Also - since there were only a dozen or so passengers on the maiden flight, presumably none of them would be expected to "double up"; have you any idea which staterooms would have been occupied by Lord Thomson and Sir Sefton Brancker? 😀 🤨

Love the narrators voice;well spoken and soothing.

Nice work!

I like the idea of the asbestos safety feature 😉

Listen to the song of the year 2015 that Iron Maiden dedicated to the R-101 called: "Empire Of The Clouds". 🤘😈🎸 It is an 18 minute long work of art.

It's interesting to see the differences but also similarities in design philosophy compared to the German Hindenburg.

My mother as a very young girl watched this airship pass over her house. She described it as huge.

Iron Maiden song " Empire of the Clouds" is about R101 voyage.

Absolutely brilliant. Well done! As an airship nerd, may I request a walkthrough of an engine car? Or even a glimpse inside?

empire of the clouds

My grandfather watched this fly, and others, from pulham, and l still live nearby. Interesting to point out Thorpe Abbotts 100th bomb group only 2 miles away from pulham station.

Truly excellent effort on this video... may I ask which software was used to create the realistic visuals? I'm in the brainstorming stage of designing a large seaplane.. Thanks

amazing

Can you even begin to imagine the stench permeating the clothing, hair, etc, of anyone coming out of the smoking room? Perhaps a hundred people sharing space to accomodate 20-something at a time (who - from the picture - I presume would be packed in rather tightly). I wonder what sort of ventilation set-up - if any - they used.

Had no idea this ship had nearly as much living space as Hindenburg. Wow!

Fantastic detail - Thank you. Question - How much headwind component would prevent the airship making headway?

Well. Now everyone needs to check out the astounding 17-minute EPIC song about R-101 called "Empire Of The Clouds" by Iron Maiden. Simply stunning. Trust me . Thank me later.

Excellent video. ..although I am curious as to sanitary arrangements of the airship.

The R101, built and designed good enough for government work.

The R101 crashed near Noailles, about 10 miles from where my father grew up. He told me how his father took him by car on the morning of the accident to see the smouldering remains. Must have been an impressive sight for a 5-year old child.

Wow we should use that non flammable material today!! What was it called again?

5:59 “It was deemed safe because the floors and ceiling were made of Asbestos” LOL

I wonder if it would be possible to build a replica of just this area as a museum exhibit?

I had a book that characterized it as a difference between two philosophical thoughts of design…Socialism as represented by the R101 and Capitalism which was the R100. Why either ship did not use Helium which although it would have cost a few passengers, but would have kept the passengers that were on it much safer. That carpet added many extra pounds in just the dust it attracted alone, that is why engineers should have been consulted in the design, even if carpet looks better. I wish I could have been able to book passage on the R100 on its Trans-Atlantic flight since no one would build such a massive glorious airship today even using Helium. The Banks would torpedo any attempt at such a design even using modern lightweight designs and materials such as Carbon Fiber, unless you can cram 1000 passengers and 1000 tons of cargo with 10 crew members….not going to happen 😂! Happy Easter and have a great day!

Fascinating, I hope giant airships make a proper comeback, would love to fly in one. Was the smoking room on the R101 pressurised like the Hindenburg's smoking room was?

Beautiful reconstruction. Shame R101 didn't last long. Curious if you guys will do the _Graf Zeppelin_ and _Hindenburg_ ?

Very well made video. However why is there no mention of the R100, built at the same time and a great success. It’s a fascinating story of private verses public enterprise. I recommend you read Neville Schute “Slide Rule”

I wonder if you would feel the vibrations from the engines or their sound.

Iron Maiden brought me here

I'm surprised the 'occupiable' area was that large.

Any details on the R-101 as to its final flight...and demise? And how about the R-100?

If the vents froze or iced up at night the sun would make it shoot skyward and approach 180 mph like a torpedo and at high enough altitude it would burst

What are all those meters in the crew quarters?

If you could do one on the empire state building being a moor. Most people have no idea.

If the airship ever had an accident over the open ocean were there any safety provisions? Life vets, Inflatable rafts etc, or was it just a case of "make your peace, chaps."

Well in all honesty i personally think that R101 was poorly designed in her frame work which add extra weight compare to her sister and the german airships hence the reason she wasn't able to get good lift in her first as build design

I still think air ship cruises could have a big impact on tourism.

This would make for an amazing VR experience.

A one-way transatlantic ticket on the Hindenberg cost as much as a small car.

I bet those curtains acting as cabin doors weren't very effective when the person in the cabin was a loud snorer. It must have echoed around the whole lounge.

Ur! What happens when people wanted to take a shit or have a shower. Would love to see these vessels fly again though

1:44 *Bit like EV's today with Thermal Runaways - what could possibly go Wrong !*

Would someone please explain why nobody has ever built a modern replica of a Zeppelin or any of the British or American rigid airships? I know it would be extremely expensive now, but if I had the means I would certainly do it!

remember the novel The Airmen Whi Would Not Die.

It seems to me that on all these big passenger airships, the washing facilities were very sparse indeed. Just how did the passengers (and crew) keep clean?

You know I always wondered how they took showers?

Even i could build that airship in minecraft

Actually, I have been pondering a question related to a creative hobby, and you seem like the people who might have an answer: do you think rigid airships like this or similar, could have been built with Victorian, Age of Steam-era technology? Certainly there was Giffard's dirigible in 1852; and the patent for the Aerial Steam Carriage in 1842; but do you think material & technology of that era could have built a large, rigid airship? I have a feeling materials science & metallurgy of the airframe is what might let it down.

Were are the toilets for the guests? 😮 was all a poo dumped over the side, like a big bird. 😅