Day 120 - April 30th

On my way to and from a training seminar today I passed these two hangers at Cardington. They were built to house Airships and as you can perhaps tell from the cars parked alongside, are huge - Length: 812 ft, Width: 180 ft, Height: 157 ft !

The ill fated R101 airship which in on its maiden voyage in 1930 crashed into a hillside in northern France, was built and flew from here.

One of the hangers is now owned by Advanced Technologies Group who are trying to revive the airship business. The other hanger is used as a super big sound stage for films. Warner Bros shot scenes for 'Batman Begins' inside the hanger, as well as a number of other films including (according to wikipedia) several James Bond films.