Design and Development
The Vickers-designed 23 class rigid airships, which were basically "stretched" and modified versions of the No. 9 design, were never used in combat; however, the four ships in the class provided many hours of valuable training for British airship crews and experimental data for designers and engineers, and some radical changes and refinements were consequently incorporated into the design of the R23X class. Originally four R23X class were planned, R27 to R30 consecutively, but the programme was re-evaluated following the forced landing of L 33 in Little Wigborough, Essex, on 24 September 1916. British engineers gained a valuable insight into the state of German rigid airship design and technology when they examined the virtually intact Zeppelin, and it was subsequently decided to cancel R28 and R30 in order to concentrate resources on an improved design, the new R33 class.
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