Plane a Day 29/06/2011

Trying a different (more "scott robertson"ish) technique.  It certainly helped with the foreshortening on the nearside wing

Plane a Day 28/06/2011

Some sort of hypersonic spaceplane thingamy

Digital Doodling

Unusually for me, I have absolutely no idea what this is, or what it's for

Plane a Day 27/06/2011

Obviously, one of the first casualties of the apocalypse was health and safety...

Plane a Day 26/06/2011

Since yesterday was a flying battleship, today is a flying aircraft carrier (which, logic dictates, is the natural replacement).

Of course, this design is based on a zeppelin, rather than mysterious anti-grav propulsion (or Cavorite)

Also unlike the flying battleship, the airship aircraft carrier was actually tried as a concept in the 1920s (although launching and retrieving using a trapeze, a la "Crimson Skies")

Plane a Day 25/06/2011

Ah, the great steampunk cliche, the flying battleship...

Looks good on paper, terrible in practice.  Particularly when, like this one, you embrace the design philosophy of "take real dreadnaught, make fly, add greebles".

Yet another reason why Miyazaki is a brilliant vehicle guy

Plane a Day 24/06/2011

Art Deco maglev (hovertrain)