Has anyone ever heard of a flying buttress?

Answer 1

Yes, in Architecture. Bath Abbey in England has fine examples of them. They are used to support load bearing walls & tend to be found oin religious buildings.

Answer 2

In architecture, a flying buttress, or arc-boutant, is a butt, usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building. The employment of the flying buttress means that the load bearing walls can contain cut-outs, such as for large windows, that would otherwise seriously weaken the vault walls.

The load is reduced on the vault wall by throwing a semi-arch across to a vertical buttress outside the building. Though employed by the Romans and in early Romanesque work, it was generally masked by other constructions or hidden under a roof, but in the 12th century it was recognized as rational construction and emphasized by the decorative accentuation of its features, as in the cathedrals of Chartres, Le Mans, Paris, Beauvais, Reims, etc.

Sometimes, owing to the great height of the vaults, two semi-arches were thrown one above the other, and there are cases where the thrust was transmitted to two or even three butts across intervening spaces. As a vertical buttress, placed at a distance, possesses greater power of resistance to thrust than if attached to the wall carrying the vault, vertical buttresses as at Lincoln Cathedral and Westminster Abbey were built outside the chapterhouse to receive the thrust. Vertical buttresses are usually weighted with pinnacles to give greater power of resistance.

This technique has also been used by Canadian architect William P. Anderson to build lighthouses at the beginning of the 20th century.

Answer 3

In architecture, a flying buttress, or arc-boutant, is a butt, usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building.

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Answer 4

Take a good look at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Those are flying buttresses.

Answer 5

Yes. He was Jimmy Buttress, the most obnoxious kid in school. We kept chucking him out of the window.

Answer 6

My brother crawled at 4 months. He was a big baby, and it is entirely possible. I know of other babies who didn't crawl 'til they were 8 months, and some that never crawled at all; they just got up and walked, one day... It really varies, but one can't judge what other babies are or are not capable of, based on what their own baby can or can't do. ;) To answer the question: my mom-in-law insists that my husband was potty trained at 4 months... As in, fully trained! Well, he wasn't; even my husbands' father admits that she exaggerates pretty much everything, and we have pics of when he was *really* training (much to hubbys' embarrassment), which was around 2.

Answer 7

Yes many old buildings have them also a term for a plane ww2 and a brand of golf club I believe. Supports for large structures

Answer 8

Well, yeah. It's an architectural element used primarily in gothic cathedrals.

Answer 9

Yes, they used to fly through big cathedrals until the hunters shot too many and they went extinct.

Answer 10

Yes. It's an architectural term.