Rubber band powered balsa wood replica plane - maiden flight
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Stumble ThisMark Clews’s work deals with escapism, adventure and the inevitable failure of childhood fantasy. LEARN TO FLY is a new mixed media work commissioned by London Gallery West and the University of Westminster. For LEARN TO FLY Clews has constructed a full-scale version of the balsa wood rubber band powered airplane of his childhood, and attempted to fly it. This exhibition of sculpture, performance, video, photography and painting showcases the plane alongside documentation of the attempted flight and a specially commissioned mock-heroic portrait of Clews flying the plane.
With a wingspan of twenty feet and powered by fifty metres of wound rubber, the plane can in theory fly up to 2,700 feet. Like the model, it can be flat-packed and reassembled anywhere in under an hour, ready for flight. On Sunday 22nd October 2006, Clews attempted to fly his airplane at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, on a runway over 6,000 feet long. A ground crew spent ten minutes winding the propeller as the artist prepared for take-off in the cockpit, and were on hand to document this first ever manned rubber-powered flight.
[http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1524]
With a wingspan of twenty feet and powered by fifty metres of wound rubber, the plane can in theory fly up to 2,700 feet. Like the model, it can be flat-packed and reassembled anywhere in under an hour, ready for flight. On Sunday 22nd October 2006, Clews attempted to fly his airplane at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, on a runway over 6,000 feet long. A ground crew spent ten minutes winding the propeller as the artist prepared for take-off in the cockpit, and were on hand to document this first ever manned rubber-powered flight.
[http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1524]
"artists" can be really annoying I hate portentous shit , why not present this in a more interesting way ore design it so it worked , you could easily demonstrate the artistic message in an animation or though imigary or some other form that would be far less time consuming and cost less and would also not be subject to people critisising that it could actually work if it was executed better.
would be nice to see the plane in the flesh though , I just comes across as inefficient art in many respects.
A valuable contribution to society.
do you mean as fire wood ?
complete rubbish and waste of time. if that guy GOT PAID for that then humans deserve to end up as dust.
^and I deliberately put it in "fail" channel to spare you of such disappointment
Yea but even the fail was disappointing...