Talk:R101

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Should we move/rename this article from Airship R101 to just R101 like most of the other airship articles or leave it as it is? -- William13 10:03, 5 Feb 2005

move it Hadhuey 21:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I concur, we should be consistent. I'll do the move. Noel (talk) 15:25, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why is this entry linked to the category 'airborne aircraft carriers?' I am not aware of the R101 ever having carried or launched a smaller aircraft (such as the Akron and the Macon launched biplanes from trapezes on their hulls, for example). Furthermore, the weight and balance issues which plagued the R101 from the outset would have made any experimentation in that line pretty much impossible, I'd have thought. Unless someone can come up with a reference or citation for this, I suggest that this category link should go.

You are correct. I have removed it.Malcolma 22:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Airship Infobox

I've created a airship infobox template and inserted it in the R101 article. Please make any changes necessary - either to the info in the infobox or to the template itself. Wikipeterproject 03:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category query - accidents and incidents on commerical airliners caused by bad weather

I'm not sure about the appropriateness of this category, because you couldn't really argue that the R101 was a commercial airliner. It was built with taxpayers' money and never carried any fare-paying passengers. As its design and construction was not financed by the private sector and it was never operated on a revenue earning basis, I don't think the R101 could be described as commercial. The argument for keeping this category is that the R101 was a prototype for what was intended to eventually be a class of commercial airliner, and there have been other airliners developed and built by governments (the Concorde, for example, though that was operated commercially, albeit with massive subsidies). --LDGE 14:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picky Nomenclature Point

Isn't R101 properly referred to simply as R101, not "the R101"? I think the use of "the" is an Americanism. Same also for the page about R100 (or "the R100" as it states). Compare the article on Titanic (not "the Titanic"), the other kind of ship. -- JoeBrennan 03:20, 12 August 2007 (UTC)