@cardingtonsheds
A 40 somthing cardington sheds fan. Slightly airship obsessive with a humorous undertone and a natural dislike of destructive, dangerously placed housing estates round the airship sheds at Cardington.
Also, yes this animation is Ai for the Ludites that no doubt harp on about Ai in the comments like someone actually cares about their thoughts....
Sheds used instead of a banana due to distance needed.
Please correct me if I'm wrong in the comments below.
Please remember, Maths after English is not my strongest ability.
Now this is Maths based so bare with me and please correct me if I am wrong. The distance from the Moon to earth is roughly 1,900,000,000 feet from the earth, so the distance from earth to the Moon can be measured with 2,339,901.477832512 shed lengths.
The image of R101 you used is the pre lenghened version. For the flight to India she was enlarged and the pattern of her envelope was different. Attached is some pics of the lenghened R101.
True, but Cardington has nothing to do with Zeppelins either.......
See what you did there, I prefer Shed seven......
Animated Ai of an original photo, airship R101 above Elstow, Bedfordshire.
He is a total Cpt Hindsight, looking upon the past with modern eyes without realising folk did things differently back then. In short, get a propper book on R101, not this collection of gleaned info from other books binded with repetitive Cpt hindsighting. I dobt like it, could you tell????
He wasted a whole chapter on Lord Thomsons girlfriend. Why? Doesnt forward the story 1 bit. His descriptions of Cardington at the start is also laughable.
He has basically gleaned bits and bobs off other books without a lot of the attached context.
Its repetitive rubbish. And also gets the death dates of the last 2 victims mixed up too. His shock at the ships using Gold beaters skins and what that is, is repeated throughout the book as he thinks he is exposing some great fact by doing it is laughable. All airships of that era used it, safely.
And then there are the Cardington Airship Sheds....
It wasnt a Zeppelin.
A new play, exploring the truth behind the R 101 tragedy, opens at The Place Theatre on 14 October...
#Bedford #BedfordNews #R101 #Cardington
95 years ago, the British airship HMA R101 crashed in the early hours of the 05/10/30.
Today, we remember those souls lost.
#R10195
There will be a church service at St Marys church this afternoon at 3 pm in memory of all those lost in this terrible accident 95 years ago.
The R101 airship disaster
#Bedfordshire #BedsBucksHerts
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Graf Zeppelin, not R101
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The St Mary's Airship Museum 95th anniversary talks.
Airship R101 fact 1.
For more info visit St. Mary's Church Airship Museum, Cardington, @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social, The Higgins Museum, and Shuttleworth Collection for incredible R101 artefacts.
Tickets: www.theplacebedford.org.uk/shows/seizin...
www.bedforddramacompany.org.uk
Recent acquisition for the St Mary's Church Airship Museum. A massive ratchet spanner and massive nuts too.... matron
All from Cardington
But what was it for?
The R101 airship on its first test flight over Berkeley Square, Westminster, from the south, 1929. Buildings pictured below the airship, and clouds above.
The S.S. Stratheden ship in the Thames Estuary with Cliffe Fort, Kent and countryside in the background. Photographed in June 1947.
Several planes formation flying at the National Aviation Day in Hamsey Green, Surrey photographed from the north-west in April 1933. Rolling countryside behind and fields with roads below.
Railway Bridge and Transporter Bridge across the River Mersey, Manchester Ship Canal, Runcorn and Widnes, photographed in March 1921. Industrial city in the background.
This new publication includes exciting contemporary photographs of aviation pioneers from the Aerofilms collection. The book includes 80 illustrations, a small selection of which can be seen here courtesy of the Historic England Archive:
@moffetthangar1.bsky.social so what are you not telling us Mr Moffetthangar1???? LTA maiden flight over you and your silent..... where's the pics? Video? Live stream? We all need a positive bot of LTA news!!!
You have hurt R36s feelings with that 😉
It ain't pretty. Rust is a nasty pest.
Well you seemed to forget the storm and low level turbulance and all the actual factors that brought her down.
R36 was the first, R100 flew after R101s maiden flight too. So in reality, R100 was the 3rd British passenger airship to fly.
One of the survivors was in that room during the accident, he broke through those walls with his bare hands, then tearing through other obstacles, he battled wis way out of the burning ship. It was in the lower floor of the ship, quite a distance from the Hydrogen.
You should see how many folk died in aeroplane accidents in that era, too. Early aviation was iffy whatever you went up in. Giant airships, of course, were a hell of a lot more noticeable and carried far more people at that time.
Any galvanised roof specialists out there? How long before the rust causes an issue with losing sheets off the roof of the Cardingtons Shed 2.
