High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major George Herbert Scott, CBE, AFC, (25 May 1888 – 5 October 1930) was a pioneering British airship pilot and engineer. After serving in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force during World War I, Scott went on to command the airship R34 on its return Atlantic crossing in 1919, which marked the first transatlantic flight by an airship and the first east–west transatlantic flight by an aircraft of any kind. Subsequently, he worked at the Royal Airship Works in connection with the Imperial Airship Scheme and took part in a second return Atlantic crossing, this time by the R100, in 1930. He was killed later in the year (along with 47 other people) aboard the R100`s competitor, the R101, when it crashed in northern France during a flight to India.