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I want one! Backyard spaceship

That's very cool,we had a mock Gemini capsule at my military school that you could climb into.I spent a few hours sitting in it as a young teen...dreaming.:d
 
Lionheart said:
... I may never have grown up....(not that I did or anything...)
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Err, well, join the club!
I wonder what aircraft was attached to that "aircraft fuel tank of the drop type" ?
Even if that is a very small kid, that is a Monster tank.
 
I always wanted to make a saucer. I was going to make one for this girls kid once out of a huge fiberglass dish antennae, but ended up not making it.

Figure one dish, smooth side out instead of in, set it on a trampoline structure for the landing gear, trampoline area taken out, disc over shoots area around edge so the gear appear under it. I forget how I was going to do the floor in it.

What if you could manufacture those things, lol.. Have some things for the interior like lights and control consoles. I wonder how much people would pay for them? You would probably have to have them assemble in pie sections and crate them. If you shipped them fully assembled around on flat bed trailers, on edge, the public would freak out, lololol...


Bill
 
Reminds me of when we'd get a new washing machine or fridge....the box it came in could be anything you wanted it to be ! Spent a lot of hours in spaceships, tanks, and planes....all curiously cardboard brown in color ! :mixedsmi:
 
maybe a cardboard brown repaint would be on the books for me in FS, or make a cardboard box as a scenery item, i can remeber making a lancaster from a few card boxes as a kid, box on top of a freezer box for the cockpit, strips of card forming the wings... tissue boxes for engines and 3 pieces of card for the double tail, it stayed intact for a good 2 weeks, i enjoyed it so much... darn parents dis-assembled it while i was at nursery :(
 
Smoothie said:
maybe a cardboard brown repaint would be on the books for me in FS, or make a cardboard box as a scenery item, i can remeber making a lancaster from a few card boxes as a kid, box on top of a freezer box for the cockpit, strips of card forming the wings... tissue boxes for engines and 3 pieces of card for the double tail, it stayed intact for a good 2 weeks, i enjoyed it so much... darn parents dis-assembled it while i was at nursery :(
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It also made for a good fort, but the first hard rainfall took it down faster than enemy troops could !:icon_lol:
 
lololol... Cool. I wasnt the only one then.

My closet was a Zeppelin comman gondola, (pre-super zep era), complete with illuminated pages taped into box openings that had lamps behind them. (Many desk lamps, lol). Later, it was a space ship, of course.

Man, my missions at night, high over the English channel, cold, the clouds out, the drone of the diesels, wind noise, creaking and groaning from the airframe...... What imaginations kids must have that we never realised we ourselves had.


Bill
 
I remember when I was a kid we used to go to the Seattle Science Center and there was always a NASA space capsule on display. It was was mounted on a platform that put itself above all the other display and you could sit in it and play with all the switches and levers.. It was pretty cool!

I always wanted my own space ship to play with in my back yard!
 
We used to make our spaceships and aircraft out of some sort of cardboard 55 gallon drum type thing that my father would bring home from base. On one side we'd cut the flap entrance hatch. There were always tons of old aircraft gauges laying around my dad's shop, so we would take the old ones and cut holes in the front end of the cardboard drum and mount the gauges in the holes to make the cockpit panel. I was happy as a clam in those creations.

Never knew what the cardboard drums were originally for and probably would have been considered playing in toxic waste these days. :)

Once in a while we'd get an upgraded airship. If I remember right the one in this photo was made out of paper mache ???

That's me in the cockpit racking up some of my early flying time in a simulator. :)
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LOL Bill, there was no airplane, submarine, rocket ship, or truck that could not be represented with a proper sized cardboard box and an kid's mind, a Magic Marker, and a pair off scissors. I even made a few Formula-1 race cars using beach cars.

Good thing we didn't have AirSoft BB guns in my day for fighter plane action. All we had was water guns and imagination. We'd a'put our eyes out fer sure! :icon_lol:

Caz
 
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