Michael_C opened this issue on Dec 25, 2022 ยท 14 posts
Michael_C posted Tue, 10 January 2023 at 11:08 AM
Good observation, bwldrd. As an engineer I usually try to keep some practicality in my designs, but this time I decided to (mostly) keep to the inspiration image. I only changed the tail to make it more birdlike and the vents to make them less cartoonish. The result is impractical but still nicely retro to 1901. Some of the earliest flying machine attempts were even more impractical. Here's the original artist's impression of the moon trip vessel:
