AeroModeller – June 2018

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26 AeroModeller - June 2018

they were about to start a small

civil airline operating from the

aerodrome using their newly built

airship - Skyship 600. They wanted

to know if this would be alright!

They wanted to know how best we

could co-exist! They were asking

me? Now to be fair, I had a bit of

previous with these guys. I had

been fl ying indoors a year or so

before at Cardington and had

been able to examine fi rst hand

the prototype machines that were

being built there. So I knew a bit

about them. Furthermore, just

as they got going as a proper

commercial venture, there was a

stupid outcry in the local press as

to how they could spy on us from

their slow-moving airships. I had

a letter published in their defence

telling those complaining not to

be so silly, and explaining all the

benefi ts of airship travel. They liked

that a lot.

It seemed that Airship Industries

attitude to aviation was like mine, it

was to be celebrated not feared

Radlett Aerodrome became

If you were at Radlett in October 1945 you would have seen the innovative

Handley Page Manx being rolled out. From the authorative book “Handley Page

Aircraft since 1907” by C H Barnes, Putnam, ISBN 085177 803 8.

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