What is recorded here
R101 memorial commemorates the crew of the R101 airship, which crashed in 1930 during an attempt to establish a passenger service to India. It is important as a site of remembrance for one of the worst airship disasters in history and as a symbol of early 20th-century aviation ambition.
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