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Between the alternatives of building more ships and scrapping all equipment on hand, the Government compromised on a static program. The R-100, which made a laborious flight from Cardington to Montreal and back last autumn, will be maintained as a sort of flying laboratory (like the U. S. Los Angeles), but it will not be reconstructed or lengthened for additional lifting power as was its sister R-101. The mooring masts at Montreal, Karachi (India) and Ismailia (Egypt), erected as part of Britain's ambitious scheme to link the far-flung parts of the Empire by air, will...
According to irate members of the R. A. O. B. the enormous pile of flowers on the common grave of the 50 dead at Cardington was allowed to remain there and rot for months, tributes from 5,000 R. A. O. B.'s being involved...
Both the Mayor of Cardington and the Vicar protested that they had no authority to remove the noxious, disintegrating mass. But not in vain were Buffalo protests. Last week it was reported that the Air Ministry had cleaned up the mess...
...something to bolster the public's wavering faith in Britain's lighter-than-air program. Some thought they heard the knell of the dirigible in Britain's air service, began to talk of dismantling the R-100 which has lain idle in her hangar at Cardington since last year's unspectacular flight to Canada...
...higher with the testimony of Vice-Marshal Dowding. Fearing the dirigible was unfit for the long voyage, he said, he ordered Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore (another crash victim) to run a full power test as soon as possible after casting off from the mooring mast at Cardington. Apparently this order was ignored...