R -101’s Triumph (1929)

Cardington, Bedfordshire. Full titles read: “THE R-101’S TRIUMPH ! - World’s largest airship makes successful maiden flight of 5 hours and afterwards returns to her mast as easily as a liner to port.“ L/S of the awesome sight of the gigantic airship the R-101 moored to mast, numerous cars pass by on a busy road in the foreground. M/S of lift moving up the mast to the airship. L/S and M/S of the R-101. Very good footage of the airship leaving it’s mooring and being pulled backwards by men holding ropes on the ground. L/S of man looking out form the flight area. Various L/S’s shots of the airship in flight Intertitle read: “Home again.“ L/S’s of the airship docking with the mast, a man is seen reaching out for the mooring rope from the top. L/S and M/S’s of the large flying machine firmly docked. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LI