Vintage Propeller Aircraft in a Victorian Hangar Interior

1 October 2019 · Manchester

A light aircraft — white and dark blue, propeller at rest — sits at the centre of a Victorian iron-and-timber hangar. The structural roof arches overhead in a grid of riveted ironwork and warm timber panels, pendant lamps still lit against the diffused daylight coming through the ridge glazing. Behind it, an orange RAF trainer and a deep-red biplane occupy the same floor space, three generations of aviation compressed into one frame. The building does as much work as the aircraft.