The R34 at East Fortune
By Cara Sulieman
RESIDENTS of a tiny town in America have been invited to Scotland to mark the 90th anniversary of the first return flight across the Atlantic.
The giant Glasgow-built R34 airship set off from East Fortune in East Lothian bound for Mineola on Long Island on July 2 1919.
And the National Museum of Flight, which is based at the East Fortune site, have waived the admission fee for any of the 19,000 residents of the US town.
The airship’s flight was an adventurous and exciting event and hit the headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
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