Poppy

I almost stopped and took a blip of some poppies the other day in a front garden I was passing but didn't. But today one of the poppies in my friend Nic's garden opened so I bagged a poppy blip.

This afternoon I went to the Farnborough Air Science museum. It is tiny but quite an interesting 45 minutes/hour. They have a replica of Samuel Cody's plane there, the one in which he made the first powered air flight in the UK. The flight was on 16th October 1908 from Farnborough airfield; he didn't make it very far as he clipped a tree, so I don't think the flight even made it out of the airfield area. The replica was made to mark the centenary. God how far we have come in a 100 years.

At the museum I found out that the mystery wind tunnel is in fact the portable air ship shed. It was moved from Aldershot to Farnborough in around 1906 - 1910 (there were a couple of different dates given in the museum ...). As well as housing airships when it was in use in Farnborough it had a fabric factory in it, where the factory workers, known as " Cody's girls", made fabric for aircraft.

[edit: It is annoying that after a time you can't edit your text on blipfoto - I keep spotting stupid typos and they just have to stay :-( ]