Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight

Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight by cptskippy on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:14PM (#12353554)

  "The company has denied claims from a witness that a line
  hanging down from the vehicle hit a telegraph pole about 
  two fields away from its landing."

Telegraph pole? Is that a British colloquialism or do they still have telegraph poles over there? Or was that how they knew the witness was lying?

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Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight by jameshart on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:19PM (#12353592)

British term for a wooden pole that has wires at the top, regardless of what the wires are actually for.

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Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight by a3n on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:34PM (#12354230)

"Telegraph pole" in an article about an airship was pleasantly quaint.

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