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07-MAY-2005 Chris Brooker

Airship Hangars

Cardington Bedfordshire

The airship sheds were built during the First World War.
They are 812ft long, 180ft wide and 157ft high.
The airship R101 was built here, and flew from here in 1930, on her fateful flight to India. She crashed at Beauvais in France.
48 Officers and Men died only 8 survived.

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