Bristol Brabazon

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-AGPW, the Bristol Type 167 Brabazon Mk I, the only Brabazon to fly, at Filton early in its test flying in 1949–50: a huge transatlantic airliner prototype with a long circular-section fuselage, a bulged nose with the flight deck windows high on top, a 230 ft tapered wing with eight Bristol Centaurus radials buried in pairs inside it, each pair driving a set of contra-rotating three-bladed propellers on four shafts along the leading edge, a tall fin and rudder, and a tricycle undercarriage with twin-leg, four-wheel main units and a twin nosewheel: bare aluminium overall, three black flight-test bands round the fuselage, a black inverted ‘T’ above each wing root and a black stripe down the rudder hinge, a Union flag high on the fin with ‘G-AGPW’ in black below it, ‘G-AGPW’ under the port wing and black propellers, as photographed in February 1950 (the Brabazon was scrapped in 1953; the shape was taken from published three-views scaled to the published span and length and checked against some 25 photographs; the nose probe of its later test flying is left off, the starboard-side windows are assumed to match the port side, and the elevator and rudder mass-balance fairings are estimated). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 295 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 189 in The Hangar