Elephant in the room! #Photography #PhotographyOnMastodon #Aviation #HotAirBalloons #Cardington #CardingtonSheds

Cardington Sheds, Bedfordshire
Built in 1919, to build & house airships. Embiggened in 1928, to facilitate the development of R101 - the largest aircraft ever built in the UK. When the R101 crashed and burned on its maiden voyage, airships went swiftly out of fashion.
But the sheds remained. Since then, they've been used as movie sets & for sporadic attempts to revive airships.
Look at the car (a Volvo 340) parked between, to get an idea of their size.
#photography #airships #cardington #beds

Watch out! There's an elephant in the room! In total, I believe 93 hot air balloons were simultaneously inflated to break the world record for indoor inflations, It previously stood at, I believe, a mere 38! This event took place in one of the airship sheds at Cardington, on 5 February 1997. #Photography #Balloons #Cardington #CardingtonSheds