Construction of Cardington’s No. 1 shed, currently housing the HAV project, began in 1916 when Short Brothers was awarded an Admiralty contract for the development of dirigible airships. The first ...

Frederick Michael Rope was born in Shrewsbury in 1888, attending the town's school and later becoming an accomplished engineer. During World War One, he joined the Royal Naval Air Service and ...

Apparently filmed somewhere in the misty, airship-size bowels of RAF Cardington -- not all that far from where the 2017 Honda Civic Type R will be built in Swindon in the U.K. -- the above video isn’t ...

Hybrid Air Vehicles, the company behind the Airlander 10 airship (the world’s longest aircraft and also known as the “flying bum” for its resemblance to a butt), said on Sunday that its current ...