Reader letter: Military airship could have been flying over Silchester
MAY I thank Alex Jennings for his comments and for his enquiry in last week’s Standard.
He recalls seeing an airship above Silchester in “1932/34” and wonders if it was the R100. I can confirm that it was not.
After the disastrous crash in France of R101 on the 5/10/1930, sister ship R100 was grounded and eventually broken up for scrap in November 1931.
It is likely to have been a military airship out of nearby RAF Farnborough.
Stephen P. Nunn
Fambridge Road, Maldon
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