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These 15 kids, age 12 and older, spent 4 building sessions making the “Towel” airplanes at Beam Camp in New Hampshire. Just after these photos, and a fun hour of flying, crashing, retrieving and repairing, everyone returned to camp eager to fix them and fly them again the next day.Splinter, aka Mark, built the Mark I towel cart back in 2008 for the purpose of transport, protection and support
of towel flying at Burning Man. Things have moved along.
As in much about life, the next generation technology is called for. In this case it is required since the original
towel cart has been mostly re-purposed as a Black Rock Ranger sign. Opportunity knocks, eh?
Behold the new underlying infrastructure for our next generation towel cart.
Raw Towel Cart
In back is the triple wall polycarbonate sheet that we want to build the box out of. The polycarbonate sheet was
donated by Daedalus Design (thanks again Pierre) and it looks great lit. Here is a towel built from the double wall version.
Sparkly yes?
The recycling of a baby jogger cart that, bless him, Steve Gerberich donated to the project really helps move things along. Gerbo is
a way seriously good funsicle artist.
What are the cargo needs? Glad you asked.
Carry this ok, right now and protect us from the wind.
And head on is:
Head on, narrow eh?
The yellow bar is 36 inches.
This is my current idea for an overall shape. The thicker lines are my best effort. I suck, I know it, but I welcome a
savior.
Save me from Breck!
Open to suggestions, really, really open to suggestions. But concrete. Draw it out, make it easy for me.
August 7 deadline for it going on the container.
Breck
PS
Maybe we can get an entry on the celebrity page of the manufacturer’s web site. I think they need some hipper use cases.
Karen King designs the skins you may have noticed on our planes in the Wall Street Journal feature and at Figment. This is her holding the firefly which flew (briefly) at Winkle and Balticks Campfire warehouse party.
Karen King holds her latest design
