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Re: Making Lego airborne
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:19:42 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Scott Arthur writes:

Non-LEGO examples are the Hindenburg, the Good Year Blimp, and the airship • that
Drs. Henry & Indiana Jones escaped from via biplane in the third movie.


Last year, I visited group which operate a old R100 airship hanger as a full
scale building test facility. Basically, they construct buildings inside the
hanger... close the doors... then burn 'em. See the hanger here:
http://www.bre.co.uk/cardington/98_11701.jpg

With ballons inside:
http://www.bre.co.uk/cardington/tescoballoon.jpg

It is almost impossible to get an idea of the scale of the building, but it is
HUGE. Read about it here:
http://www.bre.co.uk/cardington/index.html


Scott A

here's a link to a zepplin reference page I found while searching  the web
for the R100 airship

  http://www.aht.ndirect.co.uk/index-page8.html

thought you might find it interesting

   John



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(...) that (...) Last year, I visited group which operate a old R100 airship hanger as a full scale building test facility. Basically, they construct buildings inside the hanger... close the doors... then burn 'em. See the hanger here: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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