Discommon Goods
Blackbird Sculpture
$3,950.00
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It's the audacity of this plane that I keep coming back to. It's simply absurd that the roots of this astounding machine date back to 1959 and Clarence Johnson's "Archangel" A-12 spy plane. 1962 wind tunnel tests of the A-12 show a plane not visually far removed from what we now know as The Blackbird. This form is over 60 years old and looks like it was drawn 10 years in the future from now. It's a masterpiece.
You've come to expect "speedforms" from us—our interpretations of an iconic machine in motion, but this is the closest we've ever stuck to the form that exists in the world— slightly simplified to become more art than engineering, but unaltered in form.
18 blocks of wood are fixtured and machined to specific forms before being glued up for the final surface machining over roughly 11 hours of passes. 6 artisans work on each sculpture, totaling 18 hours of sanding and coating per finished piece.
There is an inbuilt wall cleat on the other side allowing very simple mounting with 2 screws. When mounted the furthest point from the wall (tail fin tip) is 7.25 inches.
Length: 43 inches
Wingspan: 23 inches