Curly's Lighter Than Air Links 

• The Airship Heritage Trust
  Formerly Friends of Cardington Airship Station, The Airship Heritage Trust is a charitable organisation based at Old Warden,Bedfordshire, England. The Trust's website is a mine of interesting information and images about British airships 
• R101 Casualties
  List of those killed in the R101 disaster courtesy of GENUKI, the UK & Ireland Genealogy Virtual Reference LIbrary 
• The Imperial Airship Scheme
  A superb 24 page essay, with many original illustrations, by Dr. Renald Fortier of the National Aviation Museum, Canada (PDF format 1.4MB)
• Nevil Shute Norway on the Imperial Airship Scheme
  A fascinating account of the R-100 vs R-101 story 
• Airship 
  The Home Page for Lighter-Than-Air Craft.  This extensive Hub site provides an impressive number of links to LTA-related sites
• Vickers Airship Catalogue
  Reproduction of the 1920s catalogue of the company that built the R.100, with original drawings. 
• Landings
  Billed as Aviation's busiest cyber-hub, includes current commercial lighter-than-air activities. (Look for the Balooning link in the extended directory.) 
• Launch.net
  Lighter than air aviation!  An excellent guide to Hot Air Ballooning which covers all aspects of the sport 
• Cargo Lifter 
  The future for lighter than air craft?  Check out this very slick site, complete with live webcam showing the progress of the construction of the giant hangar in Germany 
• Commercial Aviation Photos: Dirigibles, Blimps, Powered Lighter-Than-Air Craft
  Commercial source of lighter-than-air images 
• Airship and Blimps
  These pages are a volunteer effort to provide information about airships to persons with any level of interest. The main focus is on contemporary development and construction. 
• Trenches on the Web - Special: Dirigibles, Airships and Zeppelins 
  An academic history of the military application of airships. 
• Naval Airship Association
  Good photographic archive of US naval airships. 
• Zeppelin
  An unofficial German Zeppelin site with many links to other sites.
• Information about The Airship Association - the only worldwide body catering solely for people interested in powered lighter-than-air aviation. 
• BRE Cardington: Home of the R.101 & R.100 The former Royal Airship Works site now has a variety of uses.  Shed No. 2, the former home of the R.100 belongs to the Building Research Institute.  It is mainly used for fire-testing complete buildings, which are dwarfed by the immense structure. 
• Aeronautics - Balloons & Airships
  NASA ALLSTAR Network. Well worth a visit. 
• Zeppelin Library Archive
  Covers other lighter-than-air craft as well. 
• Joop de Wilde's World Wide Web Balloon Pages
  An excellent resource for all matters relating to Hot Air Ballooning. 
• eballoon.org - the online ballooning encyclopedia
  An extensive resource for hot air balloon enthusiasts. 
• U.S. Navy Rigid Airships at Lakehurst
  Brief histories and specifications of the US Rigid airships which were based at this famous US naval base. 
• Remote Control Indoor Airship (UK) US and Canada
  Both Judge and your webmaster have one of these.  Pretend you are Curly flying R.33 or R.101 from the comfort of your own armchair! 
• leiChterAlsluft
  Two German artists who specialise in lighter-than-air related subjects.

For individual artists' links, see the Crew's Quarters.

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