The Wright Flyer

[RMS Gigantic]

Aviation fans prepare yourselves.

Since I cannot create good-looking orgininal stuff, I research, find dimensions, and use my math skills to recreate existing things.

That is what I did here with the Wright brothers' first powered flight machine, simply known as the Wright Flyer. It will hang from the ceiling as a decoration for my massive-scale international airport build.

I posed in these pictures as Wilbur Wright, while Krystal took the liberty of posing as Orville.



This build contains no invisible bricks. It is a fully self-suporting structure, and conforms to the measurements of the real craft as closely as possible.



And lastly, my attempt at recreating a historic photograph:



Compared to the original:



Feel free to rate.

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[King of losers]

It's small and doesn't really deserve it's own topic.

But it's actually pretty good.

8/10

[RMS Gigantic]

I made it according to the specifications of the real thing, so it's less 21 studs long and 40 studs wide. There's no way I can make it larger without making it inaccurate. I spent a day or two of straight work on it, correcting myself consistantly and redoing parts.

[Facechild]

you could use Poles instead of the brown bricks, and made the wings thinner. If you got wedges the back wings would stand out a little more, it seems rather cramped for what it was. I'd give it a 4. I can see some effort but theres lots of room for improvement.

[RMS Gigantic]

Thanks for the feedback.

you could use Poles instead of the brown bricks,

I am fairly certain the original machine had square supports and not round ones, from the pictures I have seen.

and made the wings thinner.

The wing thickness was given to help the structure be self-supporting and because the original device had flexing wings.

If you got wedges the back wings would stand out a little more,

Wedge bricks would not allow the horizontal stabilizers to keep its three-stud deep dimension.

it seems rather cramped for what it was.

The original device was also rather cramped. The actual flyer offered even less movement, in fact, due to X-shaped wires between each column, visible in the picture.

[phflack]

nice, you're good at copying things like flags :D
and i saw almost instantly why you put the wings 2 plates thick
Quack.

[RMS Gigantic]

Thanks, phlack.

Also, this picture convinced me that the columns were round, so any reason to not use poles disappeared. Here is the improved version:

[Shadow Eye25]

Why is there an air traffic control tower in the background? If this is the first working plane, then there would be no need.

[suburb]

Why is there an air traffic control tower in the background? If this is the first working plane, then there would be no need.

It's his Airport server.  Gosh silly goose.

[RMS Gigantic]

Why is there an air traffic control tower in the background? If this is the first working plane, then there would be no need.

I said in the first post that it is part of a much larger international airport build. The Wright Flyer will hang from a terminal ceiling as decoration, and probably as a potential high ground from which to attack during a DM.

[ArmyUnit]

I said in the first post that it is part of a much larger international airport build. The Wright Flyer will hang from a terminal ceiling as decoration, and probably as a potential high ground from which to attack during a DM.

sweet! :D

[Kalphiter]

When does it crash?

[RMS Gigantic]

sweet! :D

Yep, the plan of the airport is to have it operate effectively as both a RP and a DM map. That's also why one floor of the ATC tower has raycasting on its windows and the one above it, the "tourist floor," does not.

When does it crash?

When you build a barn for it.

[Krystal]

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[RMS Gigantic]

Hi, Orville.

Also, the two most recent pictures are missing a column in the elevator which would make it symetrical. I corrected the issue.