x planes

sunday fantasy #404: art by Tim White (via)

sunday fantasy #403: Klaus Bürgle (via jason67’s Flickr)

sunday fantasy #402: Jo Kutula (via)

sunday fantasy #401: Paul Van Denton (via conceptships)

ever since a new Thunderbirds children’s series was announced in February, I have been mulling over how a more mature Battlestar Galactica-esque gritty reboot could work. So far I’m juggling with space entrepreneurs, Mars colonisation, political and military corruption, ekranoplans, abandoned aircraft factories, ancient technologies - and deciding just how much to mess with the five iconic vehicles. I may bother you more with this later in the year..

Jetpack away from all this shit

sunday fantasy #398: reblog: Theremina

“In the sequel to Black Wing we rejoin Volka, now a cadet with the Royal Air Force, as he is asked to don again his secret flying suit on a mission to track down an eminent atom scientist who has been kidnapped.”

sunday fantasy #397: “Les Hommes-oiseaus”, by Louis Binet

from “Les Hommes-oiseaus”, from La Decouverte Australe par un Homme Volant, ou le Dedale Francais (“The Southern Hemisphere Discovery by a Flying Man, or the French Daedalus”), by Restif De La Bretonne, 1781 (via)

sunday fantasy #396: “Key Kavus airborne”, from the Shahnameh (via)

sunday fantasy #395: Manchu (spotted via Conceptships)

sunday fantasy #394: “At the Controls of the Aircraft of the Future”, from Popular Mechanics, May 1932

sunday fantasy #393: from Aircraft, June 1910

see you in 2013 x

sunday fantasy #392: more from Clavework Graphics

sunday fantasy #391: Nick Dyer, from a comic book prequel to the upcoming novel Ack-Ack Macaque, by Gareth Powell