In the north of Bedfordshire is a village called Cardington which is home to two humongous hangers, originally built to house airships in the early 1900's, famously being home to the R101 Airship.
More recently the sheds have been used for filming for Batman, Star Wars and Inception and for tv programmes like Its Not Rocket Science and Top Gear and also music videos such as Rihanna's Shut Up And Drive. One of the sheds is home to the Airlander 10 a hybrid airship which is currently the largest flying aircraft of all time. Last week the Airship made its maiden flight and today we found out that it was undertaking another test flight so we headed over to Cardington to see if we could get a good view of it. We were very lucky to find a field which was right next to the site and we got a great view of the airship flying, circling and then landing successfully before then taking off a few minutes later for a second flight. An amazing experience. |
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