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...first airship crossing of the Atlantic came in 1919 when the British R34 (using hydrogen instead of coal gas) took 4½ days to fly from the Firth of Forth to Mineola, Long Island...
...Cardington at misty twilight. With him were other British air notables?Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore, Director of the R-101'S construction; Lieut.-Col. V. C. Richmond, designer; Major G. H. Scott, Commander of the R34 (first dirigible to cross the Atlantic); and 49 other passengers, officers, crew...
...R34 (eastward...
...Italia" which has cost Italy the lives of several equally as brave if not as renowned men, but we must insist that Nobile is in no way responsible for Amundsen's predicament. . . . In view of such dirigible disasters as the Shenandoah. the Dismeale, the Roma and the R34 and especially the ZR-2, it is a wonder and marvel that the "Italia" stood up as it did buffeted by Arctic cyclones and blizzards...
...Northcliffe money in a single-motored plane, but pitched into the sea short of Ireland, being rescued by a Danish tramp-steamer. The U. S. Army globe-fliers (1924) stopped at Greenland en route from Scotland. Dirigibles to cross the Atlantic without a stop: the R34 (British), 1919; the ZR3 (Los Angeles...