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Drawing a hangar a child can walk into
Every place the Sky Squad visits is a place a working engineer goes. How the illustrations are checked against the real thing, rivet by rivet.
- Published
- Written by
- Aida Ismail
- Length
- 7 min read
There is a version of an aircraft hangar that appears in children's books: a big shed, a smiling aeroplane, a spanner. It is easier to draw and it teaches nothing.
The Sky Squad's hangar has stands under the wing, an engine with its cowling open, access panels where access panels go, and lighting that comes from where the lights actually are.
That costs time. Every spread is checked against photographs and, where we can, against someone who works in one. The founding team came from aviation, which mostly means we know who to ask.
The payoff is not accuracy for its own sake. It is that a child who later walks into a real hangar recognises it, and recognising a place is the first step to believing you belong in it.
Written by Aida Ismail
Founder and author
- Illustration
- Accuracy