R102

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The R102 (originally called Project H) was a British airship planned in 1930 but never built.

The design was essentially an enlarged R101 intended to be a prototype for an even larger class of airships, the R103 and R104. It was recognized that the R102 would be too small to be commercially capable of flying the intended routes.

The R102 would have carried the registration G-FAAX, it was to be 820 ft long, 134 ft in diameter, have a capacity of 7,500,000 cubic feet, and cruise at 60 knots, powered by 7 Beardmore Tornado engines.

The airships which would be capable of carrying passengers on the original service envisioned by the Imperial Airship Scheme, R103, would have had a capacity of 9,500,000 cubic feet.