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Ghost of R101

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English: 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="http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm," rel="nofollow" href="http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/r101/Crash/R101_Crash.htm,">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" 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="http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cargolifter.com/index.php?id=8&L=1">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/> , so we may yet see them return to the skies.
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Source From geograph.org.uk; transferred by User:Skinsmoke using geograph_org2commons.
Author Ian Paterson
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Camera location52° 06′ 27.82″ N, 0° 25′ 25.88″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location52° 06′ 32″ N, 0° 25′ 25″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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