R101 lengthening the ship by to add another gasbag, the R101 crashed in France during its maiden overseas voyage on 5 October 1930, killing 48 of the 54 people on board. Among the passengers killed were Lord Thomson, the Air Minister who had initiated the programme, senior government officials, and almost all the dirigible's designers from the Royal Airship Works. The crash of R101 effectively ended British airship development, and was one of the worst airship accidents of the 1930s. The loss of life was more than the 36 killed in the highly public "Hindenburg" disaster of 1937, though fewer than
The Scent of Crash and Burn by Bowness/Reuter/Wöstheinrich The Scent of Crash and Burn The Scent Of Crash And Burn is an EP by Centrozoon (Markus Reuter and Bernhard Wöstheinrich), featuring No-Man singer Tim Bowness as a guest vocalist; the first in a series of releases by this trio configuration which included both CD and vinyl albums, digital-releases, as well as a DVD. Selected tracks from "The Scent Of Crash And Burn" were reworked (either as remixes or edits) for subsequent releases. For example, the title track was edited by co-producer Lee Fletcher for inclusion on the follow-up album "Never Trust The Way You Are". All