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Rubber band powered balsa wood replica plane - maiden flight

(kulpims)
1 decade 5 years 1 month 1 week ago

Mark 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]