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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every time anyone mentions airship R101, they emerge..... The cult of Shute......

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

vm.tiktok.com/ZNRWgyM98/ One of my airship poems brought to life with AI.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And of Course Brabazon was also part of the official inquiry Into the R101 accident too.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

But any aircraft would have failed that night. The storms what brought her down and navigational situation following the french beacon system meant she was low. The eye witness statements of her estimated height that were ignored by the inquiry are quite quite an eye opene

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Bit harsh on ol' R101 there old chap.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Loved the film. Me and the old boy really enjoyed it. We got into the cinema, forgot we were at a 3d viewing after wondering why everything looked blurry LOL. after a quick trip to the Foyer to get some glasses all was good Lol. Great movie.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Airship R101 animated AI. Really do not know why a lot of folk use AI to create versions of R101 that look like a steam punks dream when you can do it with real photos and get pretty decent results

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

He was the best known British airship captain we had. As to the well publicised drinking shenanigans, in those times, people drank, some a lot.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Well it flew in a storm that brought it down.. deciding to leave I suppose instead of waiting for the next morning may have been seen as mistake but I do not for 1 second think they were expecting it 2 be as bad as it ended up. That's the problem with pioneering endevor, there's no rule book to read

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Well being brought down in a storm you mean? Of course the worst airship disaster (not civil) was American and helium filled to boot. R101 was brought down due to conditions and low altitude due to a mix of navigation and keeping out the cloud base.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Please correct me if I'm wrong in the comments below. Please remember, Maths after English is not my strongest ability.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

True, but Cardington has nothing to do with Zeppelins either.......

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

See what you did there, I prefer Shed seven......

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Animated Ai of an original photo, airship R101 above Elstow, Bedfordshire.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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????

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And then there are the Cardington Airship Sheds....

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

www.facebook.com/share/1CaULZ... The St Mary's Airship Museum 95th anniversary talks.

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The BDC @bedforddramaco.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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?

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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:

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

@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!!!

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

You have hurt R36s feelings with that 😉

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It ain't pretty. Rust is a nasty pest.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Well you seemed to forget the storm and low level turbulance and all the actual factors that brought her down.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

R36 was the first, R100 flew after R101s maiden flight too. So in reality, R100 was the 3rd British passenger airship to fly.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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.

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CARDINGTON SHEDS @cardingtonsheds.bsky.social · 29/04/2025