Dreadnought HolidayPermit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.
"You lad!"
"Yessir?"
"See that there?"
"Yessir?"
"Valuable technical experience."
"Are you sure, sir?"
"VERY VALUABLE."
"Yessir?"
"See that there?"
"Yessir?"
"Valuable technical experience."
"Are you sure, sir?"
"VERY VALUABLE."
Anyway, more photos of "valuable technical experience" in not randomly removing major structural elements from your lardy-arse airship (song with other traditional Barrow scenes) are available at the marvellous Sankey Archive - https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/
Did I mention this thing had already been sarcastically nicknamed "Mayfly" before it received its definitive answer?
