His Majesty's airship : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine
(Book)

Illustration on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Gwynne's chronicle features a cast of remarkable - and often tragically flawed - characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, the man who dreamed up the Imperial Airship Scheme and then relentlessly pushed R101 to her destruction; Princess Marthe Bibesco, the celebrated writer and glamorous socialite with whom he had a long affair; and George Herbert Scott, a national hero who had made the first double crossing of the Atlantic in any aircraft, in 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh's famous flight - but who devolved into drink and ruin. These historical figures - and the ship they built, flew, and crashed - come together in a grand tale that details the rocky road to commercial aviation"--Dust flap.