How to restore a 40-year-old flying machine
by Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2019
4 minutes
Behind the glass of the picture window, cornflower blue wings flap slowly beneath the balloon of a muslin-covered zeppelin. Wheels connected by bicycle chains to the airship rotate, while a tiny metal man scans the horizon with a bronze spyglass, another steers the wheel of the ship and a third pops up from a hatch on the deck. A red rudder pivots back and forth below the keel of the ship, stirring the still air in the store, a prop shop called Jadis that first opened in Santa Monica in 1976.
The flying machine, powered by a small electrical motor contained within the balloon, looks like something Terry Gilliam
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