Airframe (stage technology)

An airframe is a conveyor system belonging to the upper stage of a performance facility, which is used during the stage to raise, lower and move people (passenger flights) or decorative items. It dates from the early Renaissance period , when a person suddenly had to appear on the Telari stage with the trick “God from the Machine” (“ Deus ex machina ”).

The person to be lifted usually wears a special flight corset to which the point pull ropes of at least three computer-controlled winches are hooked. Three-dimensional trajectories can be realized in this way: straight line, circle, spiral or a path programmed as desired. The system has a long tradition with a running rail - fixed or height-adjustable - across the stage, on which a carriage - possibly with a hoist rope - can also be moved by hand.

literature

• Bruno Grösel: Stage technology. Mechanical equipment , 5th edition. Verlag De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-035172-9 , p. 201 f.

Web links

• Flying people in scenic representations , GUV information, GUV-I 8636, March 2007 (accessed April 25, 2018)