Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Maybach Mb.IVa

Maybach Mb.IVa
Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2023  at 18:31:53 (UTC)
 * Reason:An artifact of engineering history. The Maybach Mb.IVa was one of the first aircraft engines designed for a ~6000 foot altitude, a high altitude at the time, 1916. The engine was used during and post WWI. The article lists the many aircraft that used the engine. On a sidenote: it looks like the dark background was edited in post-process, but it can use a touch-up (around the periphery of the engine). I will touch it up if the nom gets a few supports or conditional supports.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Maybach Mb.IVa
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Machinery
 * Creator:National Air and Space Museum, Dane A. Penland


 * Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 18:31, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment – As an old aviation history nut I myself find this sort of thing interesting, but one must wonder whether many readers would. Although the name Maybach is famous, this century-old motor seems rather obscure. (Not opposed, tho.) – Sca (talk) 15:56, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I have FPs of 1800-1920 opera singers, obscure suffragettes... it illustrates an article on itself. That's enough. Support Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.6% of all FPs. 20:51, 28 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Support NASM has a bunch of these pics but they usually have important bits blocked by supports or bits of the engine missing. Nice to finally see one that doesn't have those problems.©Geni (talk) 17:45, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per Adam. Different readers have different interests; FPC should cast a wide net. And although I have zero interest in the history of internal combustion engines, it's a handsome piece of metalwork and a nice example of early 20th-century industrial design. Choliamb (talk) 14:37, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 19:13, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:13, 5 December 2023 (UTC)