The Things They Say. . .

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”The R34’s most significant memorial was at London’s Heathrow Airport, where in 1962 a large model was hung above the space where daily congregate the thousands of passengers travelling between Britain and America. Sadly, and for no apparent reason, the model was removed some years later and is now, unaccountably, in the museum at Brooklands; a place with which the airship had no connection whatsoever” — Aeroplane Monthly, in the very interesting article by Patrick Abbott it published in its August issue about the R34’s double crossing of the Atlantic in 1919.