Avis Aeromechanica Chocolatus
Introduction
A bird plane on a beach at sunset, where a bird plane has no business being. A lighthouse, a container ship on the horizon, two figures at the waterline, a foreground that reads as either a fence or a wave. The creature is moving past all of this rather than landing or taking off, and nothing in the painting suggests anyone is surprised.
The name says what it is. Avis, bird. Aeromechanica, a machine that flies. Chocolatus, because chocolate is its fuel. The orange livery is there because orange is a bright, cheerful colour, and a bird plane that runs on chocolate ought to look the part.
Profiles
The blueprints came first. Top and side elevations, drawn the way you would plan a machine: cross-sections, callouts, annotations that look technical because they are. Wings are still feathered. The high-nutrition bypass propulsion engine runs on chocolate, fats, greens and protein, mixes them in a microwave, and vents through a CO2 extractor that is a literal pot plant. ILS trees stand on either side of the runway.
Brains
FlightGPT 0.4 and 1.0 are two passes at the same problem: how the bird's brain and the AI that flies the aircraft talk to each other. In 0.4, the system is drawn inside the silhouette of the bird itself. In 1.0, the silhouette is gone. The same system reappears as a rectangular industrial column, with the bird reduced to a small reference diagram off to the side. Between the two versions the creature disappears into its own infrastructure. How do feeling and data meet, and which one decides.
Other systems will be drawn as they are understood.