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Across the rolling farmlands of central Ohio's Morrow County last week lumbered heavy trucks laden with pipe. In the county's once-slumbering towns -Mt. Gilead, Cardington and Edison, roughly 40 miles north of Columbus-dusty station wagons from several states competed for parking spaces. Husky, plastic-helmeted men searched for scarce furnished rooms. The night sky glowed orange, and the air was filled with an acrid stench. "That smell used to make me deathly sick," says one Morrow County resident, "but now it doesn't bother me at all." And why should...
...Near Cardington, Ohio, a British Lockheed bomber cracked up and burned. Two young U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenants died in her blackened hulk. Few miles away, on the Army's Patterson Field, another Lockheed, with the red-white-&-blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please...
...higher, thus impairing their marksmanship. This year, therefore, in its frenzy of rearmament, Great Britain is again preparing a balloon apron to be used for its psychological effect. How impressive this apron will be was last week indicated more dramatically than by any speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long steel whip, less...
...London. Dr. Hugo Eckener. director, and Col. Edward Andrews Deeds of National City Co., board chairman, of International Zeppelin Corp., asked the Air Minister, the Marquess of Londonderry, for permission to use the air stations at Howden and Cardington (homes of the wrecked R-101 and dismantled R-101) as bases for Zeppelin Corp.'s projected transatlantic airship service...
Sledgehammers clanged the knell of Britain's airship program in the great air dock at Cardington last week. The hammers, swung by workmen of Elton. Levy & Co. Ltd., buyers of scrapmetal, fell against the frames of the airship R-100 which flew from England to Canada and back last year, and has been in her shed ever since. Following the catastrophic crash of the R-101, the R-100 fell victim to an economy program. After all the metal has been flattened by steamrollers, some of it will be made into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts...