Airplanes

Bag 18 – The rear trim tank is a fuel tank held in the tail of the aircraft. The center of gravity of the Concorde had to be different for take-off and supersonic cruising, so the flight engineer transferred fuel between tanks to adjust the aircraft’s center of gravity. Bag 18 – Rear Trim Tank

October 14th I got in an afternoon build to wrap up Thanksgiving long weekend.  I assembled three more bags, the first on this day making up the left engine, which once attached my plane had all engines.  These engines powering the Concorde allowed the aircraft to cruise at 2,146 km/h (1,334 mph), allowing passengers to

On August 16, 2024 I got in another building session, wasn’t long after my previous one, but took me quite a while to get back to blogging about my Lego builds. Wanted to be out enjoying the nice weather and spending time with my daughter, as most of my building happens in the evenings after

My building sessions were some sporadic evenings where I would build one bag an evening.  Bag 5 was about building the structure around the landing gear ‘arms’ and starting to get the outside look going with the red striping and building upon the delta wing surrounding the mechanism as you can see in Bag 6

The Concorde is the world’s first commercial supersonic aircraft allowing commercial passenger travel at supersonic speed up to Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound), near the edge of space.  The Concorde was in service from 1976 to 2003.  This means the engineering and design of the aircraft was done prior to 3D design rendering

I stumbled into a new hobby, as I watched Steph, my wife, complete adult LEGO sets from the botanical collection, some of which I purchased for her for various occasions.  This became a relaxing and enjoyable hobby for her and over the past year my daughter, who just turned 4, has also discovered LEGO.  It