Red Wing Flier

This was my first reaction, after the over-sized top heavy dirigible. A natty little flier. If I could only enter one design, it would be a toss up between this in the flapper. I think the flapper is more fun, but this one is more resilient to impact.

The Technobabble

This agile little flier is based on the Phosphonic drive. A strong phospherecent, light source (glwydium found in Welsh coal mines) is combined with a photo resonating material (Chestertonium XIII), that is light causes vibration. The vibration can heat a liquid, say liquid sodium, which then passes through a heat exchanger making steam to drive the turbines.

THe bulbous nose houses a gyroscope.

In Flight Movie

I never got good in flight video for this one, but here is what I have...

Parts

Only 24 bits. The chunk of Bionicle helped with reduced part count. The studded pins go one up for the pilot's "neck" and two down to fix the body to the cannonball. The red grid was just me being lazy, not looking for a 2x1 studless plate.