A balloon which broke adrift from the Larkhill RAF Flying School at Salisbury drifted over five counties and a distance of 80 miles before coming down on telegraph wires at Watling Street Hockliffe near Dunstable - the balloon had been engaged on manoeuvres over Salisbury Plain when it broke away - an autogiro airplane and scores of police and militray cars then chased it - it was two hours before its occupants Colonel G J Giffard ( Staff Offiver Second Division Aldershot Command ) and Pilot Officer Green could be rescued - photo shows loading the balloon on a lorry after it had come down October 25th 1934