Airships

[squirmelia]

"The Airship is Coming!" the sign in the lift proclaimed, at the Post & Tele Museum. The top floor led to views of the roof-tops of Copenhagen, so I discarded the notion of airships temporarily. After lattes and spires, the exhibition began to appeal - I was due to fly by aeroplane just a few hours later back to London.

I found myself clambering on board and peering into a small wooden cabin: the remains of a zeppelin that probably once flew through the air with someone sleeping in that bed.

There was also porcelain, stamps, letters, random airship shaped objects, as well as replica luggage tags you could stamp airship postmarks onto. Zeppelins don't look entirely real to me though, perhaps because I've never seen one in the air and they seem like a somehow romantic and pseudo-futuristic way to fly, yet a way to transport bombs. Maybe I should have bought a zeppelin-shaped lighter.

Comments

[turnedoffneon.livejournal.com]

yes zeppelins don't seem real. i can't believe they flew, they seem as big as whales.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

The polar bear is looking longingly at that zep. Maybe he thinks it's an extra-large and juicy seal.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I'm now scanning the sky for whales.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Maybe the polar bear wants to fly!

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

I used to see airships all the time, what with living near Cardington Hangars (http://www.aht.ndirect.co.uk/sheds/Cardington.htm).

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Cool! That must have been quite odd.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

isn't that wonderful?!? they had flying cars 100 years ago!!!

http://eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com/157886.html

[leoz.livejournal.com]

The bottom of that stamp says "Air Mail" which is appropriate and hilarious at the same time.

Also, since when are there polar bears at the North Pole?

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I was at a museum last weekend which partly commemorated one of the first airborne bombings in the world, with hand-thrown bombs out of a Zeppelin in 1915.

Onto King's Lynn, of all places...

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

They got to the North Pole by airship. ;)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Cool! That would certainly beat travelling on the bus.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

the downside to this would be from Santos-Dumas himself, he used to wear a Panama hat that had scorch marks on it. That's because his expirimental engine would occasionally catch fire and he'd have to smash the flames out with his hat. So yeah, chance of falling from the sky in flames, but still. FLYING CAR!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Maybe I could just wear a Panama hat with scorch marks on it and pretend I've been in a flying car.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Sounds odd! Which museum was that?

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

at the time, it became the fashion to do that! Sort of an Indiana Jones look I guess.