The story of the two giant airship sheds at Cardington was told to members of Dunstable and District Local History Society at ...

Cardington soon became the beating heart of operations. Two massive airships were built, the R-100 (at Howden, Yorkshire) and R-101 (at Cardington). Both airships were over 700 feet long and ...

while little Cardington is home to the vast Cardington sheds from where the ill-fated R101 airship took off for India on October 4 1930. The largest vessel ever built at the time, the R101 crashed ...