unfortunately, I've been very busy - and our day five and six Advent calendar hangar doors - the twin airship sheds at Cardington - will have to remain closed but, did you know that Cardi B is short for "Cardington B", and her song WAP was originally going to be about the Wasteful Airship Project? - ThreadSky

exoticaviation.bsky.social • 82 days ago

unfortunately, I've been very busy - and our day five and six Advent calendar hangar doors - the twin airship sheds at Cardington - will have to remain closed

but, did you know that Cardi B is short for "Cardington B", and her song WAP was originally going to be about the Wasteful Airship Project?

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exoticaviation.bsky.social•82 days ago

how is it only day seven of the Advent calendar hangar door thing? we will get though this, people..

today's is a doozy - we're opening up a unique "teepee" portable storage device, to reveal the Convair XFY-1 Pogo V/STOL tailsitter! note the different levels within, for servicing

exoticaviation.bsky.social•80 days ago

Advent calendar day 8, and the hangar doors have opened to reveal the Avro Type G experimental biplane - an entry in the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition, and apparently the first aircraft to have recovered from a spin in front of witnesses

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Type_G)

exoticaviation.bsky.social•79 days ago

Advent calendar hangar door 9 is this snug loading aperture for the Airbus Beluga/Super Transporter in Hamburg, which allow’s its “pope hat” front profile to slide snugly into the building, to aid the transfer of freight in bad weather

Airbus have built several of these new buildings in Europe

exoticaviation.bsky.social•78 days ago

somebody left the 10th Advent calendar hangar door (elevator shaft) open, and an F9F Panther has gone straight through it!

(USS Bennington, 1953. 40 minor injuries, and serious injuries to the pilot of the bottom a/c, who was later medically discharged, http://www.uss-bennington.org/stz-53_f9f-4_to_hanger.html)