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The R-100 heads home. Yves Beauregard collection.
August 1930
Quebec City, Quebec

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Thanks to the prevailing westerlies, the return journey to England took only 57 hours, 36 minutes, and the airship arrived with 12,110 litres of unspent fuel. The only time the R-100 heeled enough to make a pen roll on a table was when being moored to the mast at Cardington on August 16.

After 19 days away, the airship's 56 passengers were greeted by a tiny crowd not even vaguely comparable to that at Saint Hubert. However, Secretary of State for Air, Lord Thomson of Cardington, was there. The R-100, like every airship that crossed the Atlantic, marked a true exploit, even more so given that the journey back from Canada had beaten all previous records.