In the late 1920s the British built two large airships -- R.100 and R.101. The image above shows details of the mooring tower at Montreal -- they built towers in England, India and Canada. Up the center core of the mast ran pipes a foot in diameter to deliver hydrogen, water, and fuel. Huge pumps at the base could lift 5,000 gallons of water per hour and pump fuel at 2,000 gallons per minute from the 10,000-gallon tank buried in the ground near the mast.












