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Originally Posted by Sonneilon
Dawg, I want to do a helicarrier ala Shield but I didn't how to do an exterior. It wouldn't fair to do all close-ups and interiors w/o EVER seeing what the thing looks like. I fault Star Trek : Motion Picture for doing a HORRIBLE job of showing what the cloud/ship looked like. You NEVER got the idea of scale or anything. THe later release, you got a remote idea but this 'ship' that V'ger piloted, it was supposed to be huge!!! AT least a movie like Black Hole (Disney), you got the idea of how THAT ship was supposed to be!!!
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An exterior will be rough, especially curved edges. Anyone work on boat building and know how they warp wood to make a curved bow?
My biggest problem would be what to use for lift? If the thing is made of metal, then the Prop blades would have to be HUGE, and if they are that big, the planes would fly into them when landing or get sucked into them. I like the photos you sent me of the one with the jet Engines. I'm thinking something like that, or like the Huge Turbo Fans on the Dragonhawk.
That's the problem with knowing too much about Engineering, it kill creative imagination when you have to stick with what is feasible.
I was reading a few years ago about how a billionaire was thinking about creating a "floating city" with an airport on top that would have sit in international waters and cruise the globe. It would have it's own autonomy and it's citizens would have international citizenship. I wish I could fined the pictures. I found something similar, and this is cool;
I don't know that Cobra Commander would pay to build something like this, but I could see him hi jacking it and declaring it Sovereign.
I found something closer to what I read and the pictures are closer to what was talked about in the article;
http://science.howstuffworks.com/fl...y.htm/printable