Name/Title
270, Art Car, AirPlane 1, Dion LaurentTags
2024, #Description
"AirPlane 1, the world's first airplane designed specifically to produce fresh air and oxygen for human survival. NASA and Space x and space programs around the world create bioregenerative life support systems to provide an environment similar to Earth's biosphere . The fuselage of AirPlane 1 is filled with plants and algae to produce fresh air and oxygen, conceptually enough to sustain a human being. The propeller is a wind generator blade that spins an alternator and combined with the solar panels produce enough electricity to operate AirPlane 1 and all of its systems .
I tried for a few years to find a real airplane for this project and eventually found a 1959 cessna 172 that hadn't moved for 20 years, but the owner would not sell it. So I did some drawings and measurements of that plane, and made AirPlane 1 out of wood, aluminum, steel, plexiglass, solar electric lighting and fans, found objects, wheels and tires, alternator and wind generator blade, electric drive motor system... It was meant to be a play on the words air and plane and serve as an exploration base for EarthMan."
Years ago I was thinking of traveling onward again, maybe another 7 years of traveling the world. And then I walked into the Art Car Museum... For years I have been saying, "If not for Willie Nelson and Jim and Ann Harithas, I may not live in Texas. Of course, that now includes the Art Car Musuem and the Orange Show, and the Art Car Parade.
