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Date(s)
- 1931 Mar (Creation)
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1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to the R101 airship disaster, 1930, including, telegram to Dean from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; copy of the Pilot's report on the endurance flight of the R101 on which Dean was a passenger; The Air Force Department Society Journal, no.6, May 1966 containing Dean's article 'The loss of the airship 101' and duplicate copy of the article; Report of the R101 inquiry (HMSO, London, 1931); printed text of a lecture on 'the airship: a technical history' by E Mowforth, lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Surrey at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Nov 1973; 'R101 and other airships-the process of development' by Wg Cdr Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave, reprint from The Royal Aeronautical Society, vol.66, Aug 1962; note by Dean 'for record' on a recording made for Granada Television on the R101, 1967 and related correspondence; correspondence relating to the R101 with Cave-Browne-Cave, Sir Peter Gordon Masefield, Wg Cdr Ralph S Booth, Peter John Hudson, Ministry of Defence. With 8 photographs of the R101. 1 file