R101

I learned something new recently.  I'd heard of the Hindenburg airship, of course, and I've even listened to the "oh, the humanity" recording from the onlooker.  But I'd never heard of the R101 disaster.

R101 was a British airship that crashed in France in 1930.  At the time, it was the largest flying machine ever built.  Forty-eight people were killed.

Iron Maiden wrote a song about it.