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R33 (G-FAAG): Built by Armstrong Whitworth at Barlow, Yorkshire. Mooring mast fitting, otherwise bow mooring erected at Cardington for mast trials. Design start date November 1916. First flight 6th March 1919. Gas capacity 55,460 cubic metres hydrogen. Equipped airframe weight 34,815 kg. Dismantled 1928.

c 1920-1921

From: 1920 To: 1921

1: View through the hanger door of bow of R33, showing the mooring fitted at Cardington for mast mooring to mast. Shed door slightly open to give more light for the erectors. (2 copies)2: View of front of R33 in the hanger (2 copies)3: View of rear of R33 in the hanger (2 copies)4: View of underside of R33 in the shed (2 copies)5: R33 flying above the hanger, hanger doors fully open (2 copies)6: R33 flying above the open hanger, taken soon after BorBK 2/9/3/4 (2 copies)7: R33 in flight, the hanger at Cardington in the background (2 copies)8: R33 flying over the Shortstown (2 copies)9: R33 flying over fields (2 copies)10: Group photograph showing Major Scott, Captain Irwin and Captain Johnson, navigator. Also in the middle: Chief Coxswain (Sky) George Hunt, on his left Coxswain Tommy Greenstreet and on the extreme right Corporal Potter. Hunt and Potter lost their lives in the R101crash, Potter having previously survived the R38. (2 copies)11: Photograph of Major Scott and Captain Irwin looking out of R33 control car while R33 is still in the hanger. (2 copies with blurred man on the right and 2 copies without)12: Photograph of 3 unidentified men all in trousers, waistcoats and jackets and wearing flat caps. (2 versions, 2 copies of each)13: Biplane flying over a street probably in Bedford. Plane could be a Gloucester Grebe as they were carrying out experiments of flying on and off the R33.

No. of pieces: 13

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Scott, G H,
Irwin, H Carmichael,
Johnson, Capt.,
Hunt, George,
Greenstreet, Thomas,
Potter, Cpl.

R33, Shortstown