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Ever read the book by Nevil Shute - "Sliderule: the autobiography of an engineer"? People with long memories may remember Shute as a novelist in the 1950s but he was trained as an engineer. He was an assistant to Barnes Wallis in the construction of the R100 by Vickers. I remember his thoughts on the R101 were that aside from having to be lengthened due to the machinery being overweight the R101 had to be reskinned after it was found the original dope and fabric reacted with each other and crumbled. Shute was of the opinion that some of the original fabric had been missed and the skin split in the bad weather over France.
Charlie
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