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Cocooning (aircraft)

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Cocooning is the practice of coating stored equipment or machinery (typically aircraft) with polyvinyl plastic for protection.^[1]^[2]

ADe Havilland Comet 1ofBOAC stored cocooned at London Heathrow Airport after the Comet crashes in 1954.

See also

Aircraft boneyard

References

^ "Cocoon". collinsdictionary.com. Collins. Retrieved 14 September 2015.

^ "Cocooning the Princesses" (PDF). Flight. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2015.

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