How Pink Floyd's Flying Pig (Algie) Was Created for the Animals Cover and Tour

The most famous thing about the Animals cover pig isn’t that it was tethered to Battersea Power Station — it’s that during the photo shoot, the damn thing broke loose and drifted into the flight path of Heathrow Airport, forcing pilots to report a giant flying pig on their radar. That inflatable, nicknamed Algie, was a 30-foot helium-filled balloon designed by Roger Waters and built by a German company called Ballonfabrik (though some sources credit a British firm). It was meant to