Cardington Airfield, previously RAF Cardington, is a former Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, with a long and varied history, particularly...
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by the US Army. HAV reacquired the airship and brought it back to Cardington Airfield in England. It was reassembled and modified for civilian use, and...
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Cardington may refer to: Cardington, Bedfordshire, a village and civil parish in England Cardington Airfield, the nearby air base that has two vast airship...
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Brand-Briesen Airfield, Halbe, Germany Goodyear Airdock Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport Marine Corps Air Station Tustin Tillamook Air Museum Cardington Airfield "National...
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specially built set inside an airship hangar at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire. The hangar is owned by Cardington Studios and has been used as a set for other...
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Canaveral and the Goodyear GZ-20 Europa from Akron Municipal Airport to Cardington Airfield, becoming the largest aircraft to fly out of Akron. American Jet...
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Buckinghamshire, and Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire; these locations include the Bat Bunker, which took six weeks to build in a Cardington hangar. The Bat...
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England, with most of the filming taking place at Pinewood Studios and Cardington Airfield. Two elephant props were used during filming "to give [the production...
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Chartreuse (clockwise from top-left) Cardington Airfield, Catopsilia pomona, Portrait of the Prince of Wales by Robert Peake the Elder, Fire engine...
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acquired the assets of the SkyCat group and established itself at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, UK. The company developed the HAV 3 technology demonstrator...
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Airlander 10 hybrid airship made its first flight, of 30 minutes, at Cardington Airfield in England. 18 August Doctors Without Borders announced the evacuation...
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family's wealth. The Gotham City Hall set was built in a hangar at Cardington Airfield; the hangar also had a soundproof room that was set up for Dano to...
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came loose from its moorings in a high wind on 18 November 2017 at Cardington Airfield. A Canadian start-up, Solar Ship, Inc., is developing solar powered...
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used for location filming, and scenes set on Yavin 4 were filmed at Cardington Airfield. Gareth Edwards selected the London Underground's Canary Wharf station...
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utrechtaltijd.nl (in Dutch). "Ahlhorn". Abandoned, forgotten, and little-known airfields in Europe. Retrieved 26 June 2019. Johnston, G.T.; M. Sadecki, Ed (15...
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exploding were filmed on a full-scale replica of Lower Wacker built at Cardington Airfield in England. The chase continued on to LaSalle Street, featuring a...
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The historic airship facilities at Cardington, Bedfordshire (formerly the Royal Airship Works and RAF Cardington), were used as a base for the firm's...
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stop is Stevenage station for Allied Bakeries, before heading to Cardington Airfield where he learns about airship development at that site. 9 "Sawbridgeworth...
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Short Brothers (section Airships at Cardington)
Sheppey/Rochester area, and balloons and dirigibles at Cardington. A housing estate built by the company near Cardington to house its employees still bears the name...
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the former Royal Airship Works in Cardington, Bedfordshire, where the R101 was built, remain. The No.1 Cardington hangar is original, but extended; the...
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This is a list of current or former military airfields within the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia. They may have been used by the Royal Flying...
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Beardmore and Company's works at Inchinnan, Scotland. (Work on R37 at Cardington Airfield was suspended in February.) 3 April – Coal rationing begins. 13 April...
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RAF Brize Norton (redirect from Norton Airfield)
was instead named RAF Brize Norton to avoid possible confusion with RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire. The station's first unit, No. 2 Flying Training School...
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Shortstown (section RAF Cardington)
workers, but evolved into a settlement for people working at the RAF Cardington base. Shortstown was only created from 1916 onwards. The land originally...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (section Overseas Royal Flying Corps (WWI) and British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (WWII) airfields)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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dispute between the St. John family of Bletsoe and Sir William Gascoigne of Cardington, the latter being Cardinal Wolsey's controller of the household. He had...
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Carolina; Lakehurst, New Jersey; Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Brazil; and Cardington, Bedfordshire. Steel rigid airship hangars are some of the largest in...
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the vernacular, it was the very first base (after kitting out at RAF Cardington) of most personnel there during the 1940s to 1960, although the final...
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charged mainly with protecting military airfields, among other duties. First formed in 1942 to protect the airfields against enemy attack, the Regiment's...
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the airfield at Cardington. (Many years after Scott's death, in April 1972, the Goodyear blimp Europa broke away from its mooring mast at Cardington and...
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