1930. Gelatin silver print; image was for use as a wire photo but not itself a wire photo.

The R101, completed in 1929, was a British rigid airship which when built was the world's largest flying craft at 731 ft (223 m) in length. It was not surpassed by another hydrogen-filled rigid airship until the German Hindenburg flew seven years later. It crashed in France on its maiden voyage on October 5th, 1930 and was one of the worst airship accidents of the 1930s.