Bristol Boxkite

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-ASPP, The Shuttleworth Collection’s flying reproduction of the Bristol Boxkite, built by F.G. Miles in 1964 for the film ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’ and still flown from Old Warden: the Farman-style pusher biplane with which the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company of Filton began building aeroplanes in 1910 and trained many of Britain’s first military pilots, with equal-span wings of 34 ft 6 in, a biplane elevator carried out in front on long booms, a biplane tail with twin rudders at the back, the pilot’s seat on the lower wing’s leading edge, a long plywood box behind it housing the replica’s Continental engine with a copper fuel tank strapped on top, a two-bladed wooden pusher propeller, and twin skids each carrying a pair of spoked wheels, shown standing tail-down on its skid as parked in the hangar with the ailerons hanging: clear-doped unbleached linen with the varnished ribs showing beneath and the trailing edges scalloped between them, orange varnished wooden struts, booms and skids, a varnished plywood engine box, black fittings, a small Union flag on the tail-skid post, and ‘THE BRISTOL’, the constructor’s panel and ‘Nº 12A’ on the outer faces of both rudders, as on the original No 12A (the geometry follows the Flight three-view of the standard Boxkite scaled to the published dimensions; the wing gap, ailerons, rudders and central tail fin are taken from photographs of G-ASPP). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (660 KB) · Plate 07 in The Hangar