File:Ghost of R101 - geograph.org.uk - 1268402.jpg
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Ghost of R101, near to Shortstown, Bedfordshire, Great Britain.
This is the sadly neglected shed No 1 once used for housing the mighty airships. The ill-fated R101 was often seen round these parts during its trials and left from this very place before crashing near Beauvais in France en route to India in 1930 <a title="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm">http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm</a>," rel="nofollow" href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm">http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm</a>,">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png">http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png</a>" width="10" height="10"/> effectively scuppering any further development of the extra large aircraft. Meantime, the German zeppelins ruled the lighter than air skies until 1937.
More recently, plans to recreate enormous volumed ships as 'floating cranes' have emerged <a title="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1">http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1</a>" rel="nofollow" href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1">http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1</a>">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png">http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png</a>" width="10" height="10"/> , so we may yet see them return to the skies.
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| current | 10:42, 12 January 2017 | | 640 × 480 (82 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Ghost of R101, near to Shortstown, Bedfordshire, Great Britain. <p>This is the sadly neglected shed No 1 once used for housing the mighty airships. The ill-fated R101 was often seen round these parts during its trials and left from this very place before crashing near Beauvais in France en route to India in 1930 <span class="nowrap"><a title="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm">http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm</a>," rel="nofollow" href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm">http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm</a>,">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png">http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png</a>" width="10" height="10"/></span> effectively scuppering any further development of the extra large aircraft. Meantime, the German zeppelins ruled the lighter than air skies until 1937. <br></p> More recently, plans to recreate enormous volumed ships as 'floating cranes' have emerged <span class="nowrap"><a title="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1">http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1</a>" rel="nofollow" href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1">http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1</a>">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png">http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png</a>" width="10" height="10"/></span> , so we may yet see them return to the skies. |
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