#boxkites

[charseraph]

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[felisgalactus]

Doodled a bunch of spec-bio aliens as cartoon green aliens. Centaurs, avians, bug ferrets, and scuds by @jayrockin, crowns and boxkites by @charseraph, and birgs by @iguanodont.

[dimetrodone]

@charseraph’s funny fellas

[iwannakissasopwithcamel]

Recht Luftschlepper - "The tractor will do!"

Role: Crop Duster Served With: None First Flight: 1579 Strengths: Bombload, Low Stall Weaknesses: Painfully Slow Inspiration: Bristol Boxkite (1910)

Description:

A common civilian plane and likely to be the longest produced aircraft in the world, the Recht Air Tractor was designed from the ground up as an agricultural tool. With a heavy diesel engine, it can move surprising loads, making it adept as a transport, crop duster and topdressing, utility cargo mover, trade platform, and cloud seeding.

Though nobody would think of using this aircraft as a front-line combat machine, many have been pressed into this role over the years. Thanks to its surprising load capacity, it can carry a fair number of bombs a fair distance, so they were sometimes used in dangerous night bombing missions.

Nowadays, agricultural towns often count these machines among the forces their militia could potentially use, in an emergency, and a great many bush pilots got their start in ground attack by training to drop barrel bombs from an armed farm tractor.

[pinturas-gran-guerra-aire]

1916 A glide like a brick - Norman Clifford

In 1914, a wealthy Queensland grazier bought a French-designed, British-built Caudron G2 Military Biplane. It eventually came into the hands of the Australian Defence Department, who purchased it from another private owner who bought it from the grazier.An attempt to fly the Caudron from Queensland to Melbourne was abandoned and it eventually reached the Central Flying School via rail and road. Its first flight at the school was in March 1916.The School’s Commanding Officer, Captain Eric Harrison, judged the aeroplane non-standard and it was never used as an instructional type. It was difficult to fly and had a top speed of only 65 mph. Lateral control was by means of warping the wings.The Caudron was used for extra-curricular jaunts and occasionally VIP’s and officers’ wives were ‘taken aloft’ in it by instructors. Air Marshall Sir Richard Williams flew it as a young Lieutenant and recalled that it had “a glide like a brick”.The Caudron is shown over the hangars of Point Cook foreshore as they were in 1916. The one on the right still stands. In front of the hangars is a Bristol Boxkite engaged in a spot landing test.

[visualpoett]

1912 postcard of a Bristol Boxkite and Airship Gamma II over Stonehenge.

[benjaloo]

The Milk Carton aka Boxkite House: Saturday W15Y3

[graywyvern]

( via / via )

𝘌̰̾𝘝̰̾𝘌̰̾𝘙̰̾𝘠̰̾𝘋̰̾𝘈̰̾𝘠̰̾ 🌀.

"And mouth[e]s his words at earless owls" --de Esque

Celestial rose.

"studio audience"

faffling gawks teach me beachhead in a boxkite topaz calcite ring

i carry through snowstorms

Boom.

[onenicebugperday]

Biscuit boxkite, Isoxya tabulata, Araneidae (orbweavers)

Found throughout southeastern Africa

Photo 1 by tshahan, 2-3 by wynand_uys, 4-5 by alexanderr, 6-7 by suncana, 8-9 by wynand_uys, and 10 by bushboy

[airmanisr]

Bristol Boxkite Replica 'No12A' (G-ASPP) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n BOX.1 Allocated British Aircraft Preservation Council identity BAPC.2 This is an accurate reproduction of a 1910 design, built in 1964 for the movie 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines' and now operated by the Shuttleworth Collection. She is seen displaying at the collection’s 2022 Season Premiere Air Show Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK 1st May 2022 The following information is from a previous version of the Shuttleworth Collection website:- In 1910 the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company at Bristol imported a Voisin designed Zodiac biplane from France with the intention of building similar aircraft under licence in England. Although superbly finished the aeroplane was never flown successfully and plans to build the design were abandoned in favour of a greatly improved version which had been developed by Henri Farman, an Englishman living in France. The new Bristol machine was an unashamed copy of the Farman but rather better built so that when the Farman company solicitors threatened to sue a defence claiming substantial improvements ensured that no court proceedings took place. Following trials with alternative power plants, the 50 hp Gnome rotary engine was adopted and the aircraft flew successfully from Larkhill in July 1910. The Bristol biplane soon gained the soubriquet and equipped the newly formed flying schools at Brooklands and Larkhill. Later, in December 1910, four were shipped in pairs on air missions to India and Australia . However, the first order from overseas was placed by the Russian Government for eight Boxkites and they were delivered to St Petersburg in April 1911. These aircraft,military versions, had extended upper wings, three rudders, enlarged fuel tanks and more powerful 70 hp Gnome rotary engines. The Boxkite was issued to the Royal Naval Air Service in March 1911 and to the Larkhill based Army Air Battalion the following April. Some seventy-six Boxkites were built, which was a large number for the period. However, they proved cumbersome to fly and, by 1915, the majority had ceased to operate. This aeroplane is a reproduction built by F. G. Miles Engineering Ltd in the 1960s for the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. As no original Boxkite exists, the Bristol Aeroplane Company acquired it and placed it in the care of the Collection for preservation. In 1989 the aircraft was modified to improve a number of handling characteristics and is now powered by a Rolls-Royce Continental four cylinder engine of 100 hp. (The greater power of the modern engine is cancelled out by the smaller, higher revving modern propeller which, perhaps surprisingly, does not provide the same thrust as the seemingly lower powered 1910 design.) It flew again in 1992. Like the Blackburn Monoplane, its flying activities are subject to calm weather on public displays.

[charseraph]

Chart courtesy of @shiftersandspacebirds

[thedrumheads]

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[jasonrohlfpaintings]

Box Kite + Golden Teachers 30 X 22” acrylic / collage on panel 2022 #studiofuel #collage #boxkite #goldenteacher #mushrooms (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYpCwACl_4N/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bookloversofbath]

Air Force Australia by George Odgers

Air Force Australia by George Odgers

Air Force Australia by George Odgers soon to be presented for sale on the wonderful BookLovers of Bath web site!

Published: Frenchs Forest: National Book Distributors, 1996, Hardback in dust wrapper.

4th edition. [First Published: 1984] Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; Colour frontispiece; Silhouettes; Photographic end papers & blanks;

From the cover: Now celebrating the…

[pinturas-gran-guerra-aire]

1915 Perfect flying conditions - Norman Clifford

The light, low powered types of 1914 were extremely wind-sensitive so instructors from Central Flying School, Point Cook would silk handkerchiefs or a wet finger to assess air movement before deciding to fly. Morning and evening were optimum calm air times and this picture shows an evening flight by a Maurice Farman Shorthorn (left) and a Graham White Boxkite.The Geelong-Melbourne train has just passed Laverton siding and the track on the other side of the rails is the one along which hangars for No. 1 Squadron, RAAF and No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF were built in the late 1920s.Both types shown were elementary two-seater trainers…the Boxkite was in its last weeks while the Shorthorn had just arrived at Point Cook.There were two Maurice Farman models, Shorthorn and Longhorn. The names came from the difference in length of the anti-overturn outriggers set between the wheels.

[killallyourfrendz]

I also think it's funny that the others (vampire mikey excluded) wore grey wigs, they let their hair show their age but gerards wig is shiny boxkit-dye black. He's playing the desperate showman, the frontman clinging on the hardest of the band cuz the spotlight was always on him and what he did with his hair. He never really had natural hair on the magazine covers. There were ppl in that audience that probably don't even know its brown.