Originally Posted by
mike rondot
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There is no mention of an airship in any of the RAF source books I have looked in. I take Owen Thetford's Aircraft of the Royal Air Force Since 1918 as the bible in these matters but I have not seen his other book British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 . Now, if anyone has a copy of that, maybe the answer lies within.
I do, on his section on airships, he mentions (for example) the R.33 "It served with the RNAS at East Fortune and Howden, and
went on to serve with the RAF until 1927"
R.34 was similarly an RAF operated rigid airship, as would have been all the other remaining ex-RNAS rigid craft after the merger of the RNAS and RFC on 1/4/1918.
Thetford is good, but not infallable - he doesn't cover Air Cadet gliders in any great detail, each edition of AotRAF only copvered what was then currently in service.