One of the stars of the 1982 Farnborough Air Show flying display was by coincidence the slowest. Each day the relatively large Airship Industries Skyship 500 would glide in to prove again that old ideas aren’t necessarily always ‘old hat”. The concept of a large, by modern standards, airship was promoted by Cardington-based Airship Industries

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