No. 9r

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No 9r was the first successful British rigid airship.It provided many hours of valuable training and experimental data for British airship crews and designers.

Contents 1 Design and construction 2 Specification 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Design and construction

Designed by Vickers chief designer H.B.Pratt and his assistant Barnes Wallis, No. 9r was based in part on secret French plans of German Army Zeppelin Z.IV which had force landed in France in 1913.

[edit] Specification

• First Flight: November 27, 1916
• Length: 526 feet
• Diameter: 53ft / 16.1 metres
• Volume: 846,000 cubic feet
• Payload: 3.8 tons
• Speed: 43 mph /
• Engines: 4 x Wolseley 180hp /

[edit] History

[edit] See also

• HMA No.1
• No. 23r
• R27 (airship)
• R29 (airship)
• R33
• R34
• Airship
• Zeppelin

[edit] References

• J.E. Morpurgo, Barnes Wallis - A Biography, Longman , 1972 ISBN 0-582-10360-6
• Ces Mowthorpe, Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War, 1995 ISBN 0-905778-13-8
• Lord Ventry and Eugene Kolesnik, Jane's Pocket Book 7 - Airship Development, 1976 ISBN 0-356-04656-7
• Lord Ventry and Eugene Kolesnik, Airship saga: The history of airships seen through the eyes of the men who designed, built, and flew them , 1982, ISBN 0-7137-1001-2

[edit] External links

• Airship Heritage Trust HMA No. 9r