AM Radio's Latest Virtual Item Sale For Social Good: Oldtime Airplanes To Benefit Heifer International

Off the long stretch of a Midwestern highway there's a barn beckoning just some hundred paces away.  The place calls to mind farming life from a bygone era, and as it happens, the object inside was created to benefit a global non-profit which echoes that theme.   Located in Wales Springs, the place is known as the Refuge and the Prospect, the work of metaverse environmental artist AM Radio. 

Within the barn is a dusty turboprop which the hand-painted sign nearby says is circa 1912.  It sells for L$700 (around two bucks and two bits, US legal tender), and it comes with spare parts.  That money AM sends to Heifer International, which aims to end hunger by teaching sustainable farming.  It's the lastet effort by AM Radio, who raised near $1500 for Heifer by selling plots of virtual wheat, and hundreds of dollars to fight malaria by selling an all-terrain vehicle.

To buy a plane for yourself and an investment against world hunger, click this direct teleport SLURL link outside AM Radio's barn.

Comments

[Nightbird Glineux]

These photos could use a little work in Photoshop to brighten them up.

But I do like the Land Rover Defender that I bought thanks to your earlier post. :)

[William Harper Littlejohn]

I'll be superamalgamated, man! Said aerial vehicle is a Fokker D-8, not a turboprop, or my name is Clark Savage Junior!

[Hitomi Mokusei]

No, not a Fokker D-8. AM Radio has said that his plane was based on a 1912 Blackburn Monoplane.

[AM Radio]

The plane is based very loosely on the Blackburn. It indeed has Fokker elements, such as the windscreen, gauges and seat. The engine is based loosely off a six cylinder prototype of a dual three piston setup from Curtiss in the 1930s. So it's a mash of different symbols of early aircraft development. Hopefully it sums up to fun.

I started the plane way back in 2007 because I was interested in the color and texture of the wing fabric shown in photos of the 1912 Blackburn. I ended up finishing up a plane that felt right rather than an accurate recreation of the 1912 Blackburn. It's fun to finally see it flying.

Thanks for the write up Hamlet!

If anyone has questions about the charity work I do in SL, please IM me in world anytime.

[rikomatic]

This is a really neat fundraiser idea for a great cause! Thanks for doing this, AM Radio!