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Designations of British Airships
[edit]The proper designation of the Airship Guarantee Corporation R.100 has a period between the designator "R" and the number designating the individual airship. The bibliography of this article contains many books which use the correct designation. It also contains many which do not. The age and origin of the books appears significant. I know because I possess copies of the books. Nevile Shute Norway's (published under his name shortened to Neville Schute) "Slide Rule" uses R.00. What would Mr. Norway know? He was the head of calculations on the design of the airship as well as being the company representative on its flights. I would also point to Mowthorp's authoritative "Battle Bags." I realize that Higham in his magnificent "The British Rigid Airship" cites British airships with no period between the R and numeral. I also could cite E.A. Johnson's "Airship Navigator" as not having the period between the R and the number. One may point to the airship itself which had the "R" and the "100" separated by a hyphen. A fashion which has been repeated often for example in Michale Pratt's "Airships R-100 and R-101." Official documents normally refer to the R.100 yet Nevil Schute Norway's ticket for the east bound trans-Atlantic crossings clearly states it is for the R-100! Yet after that flight when the airship was being dismantled the article in Flight magazine is titled "Breaking up R.100." North American sources usually say R-100 while European sources from the 1920 ND 1930S use R.100. That being said I possess a plan of the airship titled "General Arrangement of H.M.A. 100. Said plan shows the designation R-100 on its sides as it appeared on the airship. A Press Release for the flight to Canada is titled "FLIGHT Of H.M. AIRSHIP R.100 TO CANADA, while The Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust refers to the three rigid airships he designed as R.9, R.80 and R.100. Clearly the question is debatable but I for one shall prefer the official R.100 if only because the two men most intimately involved in designing, constructing, and flying the airship used R.100 and neither used R-100 or R100.