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Grumman X-29 Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Grumman X-29, plotted pen to paper, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 × 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink, one pass at a time. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.
The plan of the X-29 exists as a file, everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy someone can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, and under what serial number.
The Grumman X-29 flew with its wings swept forward instead of back — a configuration so aerodynamically unstable that a human pilot alone couldn't hold it steady, requiring a computerized fly-by-wire system correcting the flight path 40 times a second. Composite wings, thin and rigid enough to resist twisting under load, made the shape survivable. First flown December 14, 1984, one of the two built became the first forward-swept-wing aircraft to fly supersonic in level flight, on December 13, 1985. Only 2 were ever built, flying research missions for NASA, the Air Force, and DARPA. This blueprint captures a wing shape almost no other aircraft has ever used.
At a Glance
- ◆27-foot wingspan
- ◆17,800 lb max takeoff weight
- ◆First flew December 14, 1984
- ◆Only 2 ever built
- ◆Wings swept forward, not back
- ◆First to fly supersonic forward-swept
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PLOT TIME: ~1–1.5 h of machine drawing time
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does, what a person does
The robot
- ◆runs the file
- ◆draws
- ◆lays down ink
- ◆repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆picks the aircraft
- ◆designs the linework
- ◆decides which lines disappear
- ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
- ◆watches the hours
- ◆signs, numbers, packs
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“Almost every aircraft in this catalogue sweeps its wings back for speed. This one sweeps them forward, which looks wrong before you even know the physics — the eye expects the opposite angle. I kept the linework as plain as possible here on purpose, so the shape does the surprising part, not the drawing.”
Open production, no duplicates
Every X-29 piece is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down differently each pass, ink density shifts, and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.
PERFECTLY imperfect.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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