(CNN)It's hard to imagine keeping secrets about an
aircraft so spectacularly huge that the Guinness Book of Records is believed to
be just days away from rubber-stamping its entry. But until the vast new
Airlander 10 airship was unveiled fully assembled in a giant hangar north of
London on March 21, it still had a few to reveal. March 23 http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/aviation/airlander-10-worlds-biggest-aircraft/index.html
The Airlander,
is a hybrid airship. An airship or
dirigible is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate
through the air under its own power. Airships were the first aircraft capable
of controlled powered flight, and were most commonly used before the 1940s, but
their use decreased over time as their capabilities were surpassed by those of
aeroplanes. Their decline was accelerated by a series of high-profile
accidents, including the 1930 crash and burning of British R101 in France, the
1933 storm-related crash of the USS Akron and the 1937 burning of the
hydrogen-filled Hindenburg. The Airlander 10 is a modern airship that uses
helium instead of the flammable hydrogen.
That airships
are making a comeback at the current solar eclipse which is conjunct the star
Ankaa, alpha Phoenix should be no surprise. Let us recall that the Phoenix is a
mythical bird that rises from its ashes. A chart for the eclipse at London has
its prominent T-square straddling the horizon axis. In our previous post today
we explained how a negative
manifestation of Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune T-square could be the death of a large
fantasy project like US-Qatari pipeline. Here we see a positive manifestation
of the same combination. In its most
positive form Saturn gives the ability to realize a large project
(Jupiter-Neptune). And it is not coincidental, that just like in the Qatar
pipeline project, here too we are dealing with “gases”(Neptune).
Two other
points need to be mentioned. First Jupiter [18vi] is conjunct delta Vela of the
celestial ship Argo and alpha Antlia, the Air Pump.
Robert Hand points out:
The actual images
of the constellations made up by the stars are not equal 30-degree segments.
They can vary from about 15 degrees to over 45 degrees. And not only that, but
they do not have distinct boundaries (except for arbitrary ones created by
modern astronomers). They can overlap, and there can be gaps between them.
It is for
this reason, the two images combine here to produce an airship!
The second
point to note in the chart is the Uranus-Pluto
square aligned with the meridian. Among other things Uranus-Pluto is
about scientific or technological breakthroughs which of course the Airlander
certainly is! Notice that Uranus in Aries, a combination that produces
pioneering new ideas, is trine Saturn on the Ascendant.
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