Desk Wings

Are you working from home using a desk smaller than there is stuff? what to do? Make some Desk Wings of course!

It's also a tribute to the Supermarine Spitfire and the brave men who flew in them as well as Hugh Dowding and Keith Park who were instrumental in the Battle of Britian .

The Supermarine Spitfire elliptical wing is copied for the shape of Desk Wings.

Here's how:

• Find a picture of the Spitfires wings on the internet.
• Draw its outline on to some paper. I just draw an outline by holding the paper against my phones screen.
• Draw some grid lines on the copy and measure where the outline of the wing touches the grid lines.

• Apply a multiplier to the measurements previously made and transfer to a large piece of corrugated cardboard. I multiple it by 10 as it kept the maths simple and made for a good size.
• Using these measurements, Draw an elliptical wing shape on the corrugated cardboard.
• Make the length about as far as can be reached from a sweep of your arms while sitting in your chair.
• Cut out the shape with scissors.

• To keep the Desk Wings level, make support legs which are placed under the wings. These need to be about 3 inches in diameter, almost desk height and and light. A suitable building material was found to be empty beer cans joined together to make a tube.
• With a can opener, remove the tops of about 8 beer cans. Cut off the bottom if a can and insert the top of another. Continue doing this until you have a hollow tube 8 cans long.
• Gap filler was squirted into the tube in an attempt to give more stiffness. Not sure if this really helped and was a bit messy so made be skip it.

To use the table wings:

• Raise one of the Wings from its hanging down position.
• Place the support under the wing and lower it on top.
• Place heavier items directly over where the support is and light items at the end.