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Re: Blimps?
Posted by Julian on Tue Jul 23, 2002 08:19:05 AM
In reply top Blimps? posted by Chris Martin on Mon Jul 22, 2002 08:43:43 PM
Just been reading Nevil Shute's Auto-Biog "Slide Rule". He says (in around 1953) that at one frame of the envelope (if you can call it that) of the R-100 still survived at Cardington at that point. Even allowing that it must have been up to 130ft or more in diameter, wonder if it still survives?