This might be a bit nerdy and uninteresting, but thought it might appeal to some people. TLDConclusions at the bottom.
While looking for deck plans of the Anesidora and considering making them, the starship designer in me got a bit flummoxed. While I have seen the plans that are out there, both those done by u/_ArthurDallas_ and the level maps from Mission 15 of Alien: Isolation are... incongruent with the limited part of the ship shown in Marlow's mission in the game.
I went down a bit of an Alien: Isolation rabbit hole and am pleased with my results, because everyone loves a bigger ship...
Let's start with the art from the Alien RPG Core Rulebook:
https://preview.redd.it/vbeymj1gf71d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=1795c0521ba00419eded8e6e1f60597dbb531cfe
The art is by John R. Mullaney, and appears to be based on the final version of the Anesidora seen in the game. The concept art varies wildly, but this seems based on the following:
https://preview.redd.it/d5h6kxuxf71d1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=919dc43741ad1ee872bb5e47cb02e040fcf41185
So far, so good. This version is pretty close to the final design, and is in fact a paint over of one of the models used in the game, but from a section of the game that was cut where the ship was being mothballed by working joes.
Here are a few more shots of this version:
https://preview.redd.it/or65q8dtf71d1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65c5a669e5138cd72dfb6f0bc6f1e00c726f0034
https://preview.redd.it/rkqnfe10g71d1.jpg?width=2392&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d54bb9d3c3052bc9e557286f99d91eb3474fc6d
If you ask my trained 3D mind, these are paint overs of 3D geometry.
So at this point, Mullaney has good reference material, and appears to have illustrated the version of the ship used in the game. I believe the illustration is perfectly accurate of how the ship is meant to look.
So when it comes to scale, I think maybe the designers might have been given the impression that the Anesidora/Corvus is a lot smaller than it actually is. The culprit is early concept art. If they are like me, they got their hands on a copy of the outstanding Art of Alien: Isolation coffee table book. In it, most of the concept art shown of the Patna, Anesidora and Torrens is quite early.
Culprit 1
Culprit 2
Both of these images are taken from Brad Wright's Artstation page on the ships of Alien: Isolation. Most notably, we have a point of reference for scale here. You can see the cargo lift with a human onboard in both shots, giving the impression of scale. I can see how getting a length of 54 metres makes sense when looking at these images.
However, draw your attention to the landing gear (unique here rather than the Nostromo style in the later concept art), the style of engines (the flaps being on the tips of the engines rather than on the housings, and the perhaps less notable, the width of the examples above. They are not seen in the later concept art and in the game files themselves.
Mild Spoilers for Alien: Isolation:
The Anesidora is seen in Mission 9, when you play through the flashback of Marlow and his crew finding the Derelict on LV-426.
Right at the start of the mission, you find yourself in a generous cargo bay, which is what sent me down this rabbit hole in the first place. Because the cargo bay... is much bigger. The platform in the concept art above (Culprits 1 and 2), shows a lift that is maybe 2-3 metres by 5-6 metres in size.
However, this is much larger...
However, the start of the level's bay is much larger, maybe 8 by 16 metres. Furthermore, the landing gear on the later version mirrors the same design as the Nostromo's.
Furthermore, the map from Mission 15 seems much larger than what could possibly fit in a 54-metre ship.
I wanted to know just how big the Anesidora/Corvus should be. So... I downloaded a software suite called OpenCAGE, which lets you peruse and export the assets from A:I, and imported them into Maya. I then painstakingly reassembled what I could. The model came in many parts, none of which lined up. There was also a model of the cargo bay shown above.
Once assembled, I realised the assets from Mission 9 were missing elements. The entire bow was missing, and those side engine thrusters were not present (although they are also missing from some of the concept art). I imported the scene at scale, scaled to a spacesuit from the game, which we know is about 2 metres tall, and then also imported image planes of the Corvus from Mullaney's illustration, made to fit 54 metres at scale.
Here is what I came up with:
Hard to see, but the 54 m version vs. the 101.5 \"screen accurate\" version
As you can see, the Anesidora here is much larger than the one in the RPG has it listed as. While this is approximate, and I am missing the front of the bow, the geometry matches up with this illustration.
Great! So it is much bigger! Let's compare it to the map!
While I could not get the complete level exported, I was able to export the meshes used for the in-game map and roughly reassemble them in a 3D space. The large block to the south is the ambulance bay (a warning that something is off in this deck plan of a "salvage ship"), whilst the rectangle in the middle of the image is the fusion core.
Something's not quite right...
So this is the correct orientation according to the map (I played it out several times, looking for semiotics, and the bridge is indicated in the square area junction as being to the centre-left and is inaccessible in-game), and what do you know... The game is not accurate to itself... But there's a good reason for that.
It seems that a year before release, Alien: Isolation got a big rewrite, and was reduced from something like 34 missions down to 18. The story happened differently. One of the missions, one of the first missions in fact, was meant to find a derelict ship called the Solace, which was iced up and full of dead people who got nixed by a xeno. The Solace was also originally known as the Patna, and it was an in-system medical ship.
Anyone playing Alien: Isolation wonder why there are three medical bays and no salvage/cargo bays on Mission 15, which is supposed to take place aboard the Anesidora? Well, that's because it is a recycled Patna/Solace map from when the game was changed.
The Anesidora was in the game, but in its own level with the aforementioned ship breaking at the docks from the concept art back at the top of the page. You can even see humanoids working on the top of the ship in one of the shots. Ripley and Marlow were going to work together to try and destroy the station by blowing it up while it was docked. There are multiple other missing levels that you can read about here.
Here is another shot with it in an environmentally sealed bay... note the power loaders... if only:
This one is by Emmanuel Shiu

What the Stats Should Be (based on):

So, if the Anesidora is wrong in two different missions in the game Alien: Isolation itself, why does it matter if the Corvus is also off in scale?
Well, let's put it this way, there is only one scene with the accurate Anesidora left in the game, and it is in Mission 9. Since Mission 15 is a recycled Solace/Patna map, it's not accurate for that reason.
That's the one we have an external model for, and it should be approximately 101.5 metres +/- 1 metre. The beam (width) should be around 66 metres excluding the antennae, and 33 metres in draught (height).
This means the Corvus should be a Class-H or Class-I (not exactly sure, but it is six steps from Class G at 54 metres to Class M at 334, so if Class G is 50+, class H = 100+, Class I = 150m+, Class J = 200m+, Class K = 250m+ and Class L = 300m+; could be something like 75/100/150/200/250 also, who knows). It should have roughly 7-8 times the displacement/internal volume, and could easily fit multiple levels and a fusion reactor the size of the one in the game.
I love bigger spaceships, do you? The community needs larger deck plans!

Conclusions/TLDR:

• The "Screen Accurate" version of the Anesidora seen in the game is bigger, based on the scale of the ship in Mission 9. We imported the geometry into Autodesk Maya and compared and scaled to the ship art for the Corvus.
• I think the ship length in the RPG was determined based on early concept art, which shows a human to scale, but this is from an earlier design that was not used in the final game.
• The interior map in Mission 15 of Alien: Isolation is recycled from the Patna/Solace, which was cut from the game around a year before release, and not a Corvus/Anesidora. It would have been a larger ship. Also. If the Anesidora/Corvus is a salvage vessel, why does it have three medlabs? Yep, went through and counted them.
• The correct size of the ship is ca. 101.5 m × 66 m × 33 m.

Oh my days I just read this whole.thong for the first time and then found out it was Jocelyn Flores' suicide note. That song hits way different now

https://preview.redd.it/277jql9x161d1.jpg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee96cf3980f3cd0a98535bfaea0345a81a3e907c
Was that what we were playing?
I went back through the timeline again:
The January squeeze of 2021 was rigged to the max. Some (few) SHFs saved their asses at the expense of small investors, who got hit hard and had to pay for it.
GameStop could probably have triggered a squeeze in 2021 with a corporate measure. The overleverage with at least (!) 123% SI (SEC report) was there.
Instead, a change of tactics: in contact with Roaring Kitty, it was decided to take the long route. Remember Kitty's video "Home alone"? Posted in spring 2021, you don't take the plane, but the bus. It takes longer, but you get there too. (https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1376927312390787073?s=46&t=I89gsNBqwdPpn1fumBidsg)
https://preview.redd.it/kq7q9fo1261d1.jpg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9b76ffeb26ea8c1a88f12fd9f51a0149d305fd0
Roaring Kitty goes to sleep.
Ryan Cohen turns the place upside down.
Nobody knows how he’s going to do it.
Then irritating things happen from time to time that (should) give the impression that GME can't get its act together: for example, the "botched" split dividend (which simultaneously exposes the fraud by the DTCC!), the NFT marketplace, big announcement, then withdrawal (perhaps only for now?), first big cooperation with Loopring, then ImmutableX... heads roll and some board members have to leave (maybe they'll reappear elsewhere?). We will be surprised.
The SHFs smell the morning air: the giant is weakening! They are coming back and building up incredible short positions again, see the latest report from Citron Research.
The business figures in upheaval come to their rescue, some are fantastic, cost reduction, streamlining, etc., but sales are falling. You can make a bear thesis out of this again. One year of profitability? Gifted! Forget it! More hedge funds are flooding in.
We too are a bit disappointed, but most of us also see in which strategically important areas the changes are beginning to take effect, and believe in our thesis.
Ryan Cohen's silence is already causing some to doubt his leadership quality, even among us, which attracts even more hedge funds, the CEO is stupid (see Kitty's men's club video!!)
How wonderful that sales have also fallen (other companies are experiencing the same, but no problem). This attracts even more blowflies to the huge „honeypot“, which also sits on over 1 billion in cash.
The creeping death of GameStop seems to contin……
This is the bear trap!
https://preview.redd.it/a0uvkdi9261d1.jpg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b75c6fdce5424b01e7dbab585e8f3838d7f53e7c
In the meantime, the legal basis for the trap to snap shut is being quietly worked on:
A corporate action that can strike at any time without notice, combined with a change of the central securities depository (attention DTCC, do you hear that?) or transfer agent (hello Computershare!). With the payment of a presumably digital special dividend (probably different than Overstock), with the ability to do anything with all of GameStop's securities - at the latest, the SHFs are in check and can't get out.
The DTCC is also screwed: we might change the CSD, the country where GME is listed, the EU is possible or somewhere else. Where there are no rabbit holes (this is the weakest point of my thesis, I haven’t found this place yet).
Kitty wakes up, a wonderful scavenger hunt begins, everyone puzzles, SHFs and us. X explodes, the number of Kitty's followers jumps to well over 1.3 million.
We all know that this is going to be a bumpy week. With Roaring Kitty with us, we are comforted and at the same time very excited about something we don't know, like children.
And yesterday, boom! One filing after another:

• First not so great numbers (which are basically comparable to the previous ones, so no fundamental deterioration)
• SHFs rejoice, yes, we are winning!
• then the sale of 45 million shares
• Yay, SHFs rejoice even more, yay, they are diluting! Corks pop.
• And then a ton of papers that could mean ANYTHING,

Just as we are puzzled and want to know what they are up to, so are the others:

• they will check if they can prevent GameStop from changing the listing, central securities depositories, and maybe even the transfer agents
• but they don’t know what will happen and when, and GameStop doesn’t have to tell them.

Due to this tactical delay (hence the looooong falling price for months) far more SHFs and also their potential helpers at Computershare, DTCC and co. are probably involved in this than was seen in 2021.
I am very sure that the price movements, trading halts, buy bans, etc. this week, which were once again blamed on us by the media ("retail frenzy"), were followed live and in color by the SEC and also by the DoJ. This was more than clear from the reports. Authorities – as weak as they may be – currently have only one chance if you want to prosecute capital crimes: you have to catch the perpetrators in the act, there is no other way to catch them (reminds me of „Billions“!).
https://preview.redd.it/dgntlq6f261d1.jpg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6c1594be037b10a4e798543971073e55910d8e4
As in „Stranger Things“, the clock appears and strikes every hour to remind them of their doom.
It must be so that yesterday's papers remain open to the maximum.
The "paperhands" and traders are probably all out now, after the high at the beginning of the week and the following crash.
GameStop will surely only want to take those who were loyal to the company with them, all the other day traders and the like are probably gone now.
We might probably get new shares.
—
Do you know the marshmallow experiment?
You ask children if they want one right away or more later, and then leave the room. Then you see how the child behaves.
That’s what happened. That was the delay. So that the trap can be built. And the best thing is:
All facts are on the table. All figures. No accusation of manipulation possible!
Everyone now answers the question for themselves: do I stay or do I go?
And that’s fair. Nobody has to stay against their will.
The price is not so bad now that you couldn’t leave.
You can leave. For the others, it's off to new shores.
And that’s why there is no date: so that people still have a bit of time to decide. But it won’t be long now.
I love this ‚Ocean's 200,000‘ number. As Kitty/Ocean said: „It needs a large crowd.“
It is legendary.
The whole thing with the 45 million shares is probably just to get money out of this old swamp as much as possible.
No, I have no idea what exactly is coming and when.
But that's part of it. Not knowing anything for sure.
And I feel an incredible love for us that comes across in Kitty's videos. The way he playfully interacts with us. And that really convinces me. They won't betray us and they haven't forgotten how small investors were betrayed and made to bleed in January '21.

https://preview.redd.it/3o7fc17fu41d1.jpg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f077ad0bfdebdf688f2db57c7d5255c07fe734c
Was that what we were playing?
I went back through the timeline again:
The January squeeze of 2021 was rigged to the max. Some (few) SHFs saved their asses at the expense of small investors, who got hit hard and had to pay for it.
GameStop could probably have triggered a squeeze in 2021 with a corporate measure. The overleverage with at least (!) 123% SI (SEC report) was there.
Instead, a change of tactics: in contact with Roaring Kitty, it was decided to take the long route. Remember Kitty's video "Home alone"? Posted in spring 2021, you don't take the plane, but the bus. It takes longer, but you get there too. (https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1376927312390787073?s=46&t=I89gsNBqwdPpn1fumBidsg)
https://preview.redd.it/r17835y5x51d1.jpg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b3b39d72e403c98ebf0ec82cfe08f5107557c86
Roaring Kitty goes to sleep.
Ryan Cohen turns the place upside down.
Nobody knows how he’s going to do it.
Then irritating things happen from time to time that (should) give the impression that GME can't get its act together: for example, the "botched" split dividend (which simultaneously exposes the fraud by the DTCC!), the NFT marketplace, big announcement, then withdrawal (perhaps only for now?), first big cooperation with Loopring, then ImmutableX... heads roll and some board members have to leave (maybe they'll reappear elsewhere?). We will be surprised.
The SHFs smell the morning air: the giant is weakening! They are coming back and building up incredible short positions again, see the latest report from Citron Research.
The business figures in upheaval come to their rescue, some are fantastic, cost reduction, streamlining, etc., but sales are falling. You can make a bear thesis out of this again. One year of profitability? Gifted! Forget it! More hedge funds are flooding in.
We too are a bit disappointed, but most of us also see in which strategically important areas the changes are beginning to take effect, and believe in our thesis.
Ryan Cohen's silence is already causing some to doubt his leadership quality, even among us, which attracts even more hedge funds, the CEO is stupid (see Kitty's men's club video!!)
How wonderful that sales have also fallen (other companies are experiencing the same, but no problem). This attracts even more blowflies to the huge „honeypot“, which also sits on over 1 billion in cash.
The creeping death of GameStop seems to contin……
This is the bear trap!
https://preview.redd.it/wcbc5pkzz51d1.jpg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18c05071d2bbf665be34b4dcc9282177607da4e0
In the meantime, the legal basis for the trap to snap shut is being quietly worked on:
A corporate action that can strike at any time without notice, combined with a change of the central securities depository (attention DTCC, do you hear that?) or transfer agent (hello Computershare!). With the payment of a presumably digital special dividend (probably different than Overstock), with the ability to do anything with all of GameStop's securities - at the latest, the SHFs are in check and can't get out.
The DTCC is also screwed: we might change the CSD, the country where GME is listed, the EU is possible or somewhere else. Where there are no rabbit holes (this is the weakest point of my thesis, I haven’t found this place yet).
Kitty wakes up, a wonderful scavenger hunt begins, everyone puzzles, SHFs and us. X explodes, the number of Kitty's followers jumps to well over 1.3 million.
We all know that this is going to be a bumpy week. With Roaring Kitty with us, we are comforted and at the same time very excited about something we don't know, like children.
And yesterday, boom! One filing after another:

• First not so great numbers (which are basically comparable to the previous ones, so no fundamental deterioration)
  
• SHFs rejoice, yes, we are winning!
  
• then the sale of 45 million shares
  
• Yay, SHFs rejoice even more, yay, they are diluting! Corks pop.
  
• And then a ton of papers that could mean ANYTHING,
  

Just as we are puzzled and want to know what they are up to, so are the others:

• they will check if they can prevent GameStop from changing the listing, central securities depositories, and maybe even the transfer agents
  
• but they don’t know what will happen and when, and GameStop doesn’t have to tell them.
  

Due to this tactical delay (hence the looooong falling price for months) far more SHFs and also their potential helpers at Computershare, DTCC and co. are probably involved in this than was seen in 2021.
I am very sure that the price movements, trading halts, buy bans, etc. this week, which were once again blamed on us by the media ("retail frenzy"), were followed live and in color by the SEC and also by the DoJ. This was more than clear from the reports. Authorities – as weak as they may be – currently have only one chance if you want to prosecute capital crimes: you have to catch the perpetrators in the act, there is no other way to catch them (reminds me of „Billions“!).
https://preview.redd.it/a5dht4q0y51d1.jpg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71380f9e7c7d803717319b98373666d64d6994f2
As in „Stranger Things“, the clock appears and strikes every hour to remind them of their doom.
It must be so that yesterday's papers remain open to the maximum.
The "paperhands" and traders are probably all out now, after the high at the beginning of the week and the following crash.
GameStop will surely only want to take those who were loyal to the company with them, all the other day traders and the like are probably gone now.
We might probably get new shares.
—
Do you know the marshmallow experiment?
You ask children if they want one right away or more later, and then leave the room. Then you see how the child behaves.
That’s what happened. That was the delay. So that the trap can be built. And the best thing is:
All facts are on the table. All figures. No accusation of manipulation possible!
Everyone now answers the question for themselves: do I stay or do I go?
And that’s fair. Nobody has to stay against their will.
The price is not so bad now that you couldn’t leave.
You can leave. For the others, it's off to new shores.
And that’s why there is no date: so that people still have a bit of time to decide. But it won’t be long now.
I love this Ocean's 200,000 number. It needs a large crowd.
It’s legendary.
The whole thing with the 45 million shares is probably just to get money out of this old swamp as much as possible.
No, I have no idea what exactly is coming and when.
But that's part of it. Not knowing anything for sure.
But I feel an incredible love for us that comes across in Kitty's videos. The way he plays with us. And that really convinces me. They won't betray us and they haven't forgotten how small investors were betrayed and made to bleed in January '21.

Nu.D-36 The Nuri Demirağ Nu.D-36 was a 1930s Turkish training and fighter aircraft. Two-seat training biplane built by the Nuri Demirağ Aircraft Works in Istanbul for the Turkish military.
Its factory is in Istanbul Barbaros pier. It was produced by Nuri Demirağ and is the second indigenous Turkish warplane. It was produced in 1936. It was mostly used as a training aircraft at the Sky School. The next aircraft model of the N.U.D Factory was the passenger plane Nud-38, which would be produced in 1938. This plane is N.U.D. He retired from the air force when the Aircraft Factory was closed. The year it was out of service was 1942. N.U.D. He starts receiving orders from Europe. However, the fact that such a success was achieved by the private sector in Turkey disturbed some circles and the government banned the sale of arms abroad. Orders are canceled one by one. Nuri Demirağ asks for help from the President of that period, İsmet İnönü, to prevent the closure of this aircraft factory. He even places advertisements in newspapers with the title "Open letter to İsmet İnönü". However, these efforts do not bring results. In addition, the factory land was expropriated at no cost for the construction of today's Atatürk Airport. Even if an objection is made, the factory is closed by court decision and the Nud-36s become a museum artifact. Nud-36s, like other Turkish-made warplanes, were one of the best and highest quality aircraft of that time.
The Nu D.36 is an unequal-span single-bay staggered biplane with a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailskid. It was powered by a 150 hp (112 kW) Walter Gemma I nine-cylinder radial engine. It had two open tandem cockpits for the pilot and trainee.
General characteristics * Crew: 2 * Length: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) * Wingspan: 9.74 m (31 ft 11 in) * Height: 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in) * Wing area: 21.8 m2 (235 sq ft) * Empty weight: 650 kg (1,433 lb) * Max takeoff weight: 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) * Powerplant: 1 × Walter Gemma I 9-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 110 kW (150 hp) * Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch wooden propeller Performance * Maximum speed: 182 km/h (113 mph, 98 kn)with maximum load * Landing speed: 85 km/h (53 mph; 46 kn) * Range: 500 km (310 mi, 270 nmi) * Endurance: 3 hours 30 minutes * Service ceiling: 3,350 m (10,990 ft) * Time to altitude: 500 m (1,600 ft) in 2 minutes; 1,500 m (4,900 ft) in 10 minutes
Nu.D-38 The Nuri Demirağ Nu.D-38 was a Turkish light civil transport, with twin engines and seating for four passengers, built in the early 1940s. Nu.D-38, the first Turkish passenger aircraft. The model was drawn by Turkish engineers, and all parts except the engines were made by Turkish technicians and workers. This aircraft, called Nu.D-38 and capable of a speed of 325 km per hour, had a capacity of 6 people and was equipped with two 160 horsepower engines with dual control and 2200 rpm. Its empty weight is 1200 kg and its full weight is 1900 kg. It has a range of 1000 km with a full tank of fuel and 325 km. It can stay in the air for 3.5 hours. Ceiling altitude is 5500 meters. The first tests were made by pilots Basri Alev and Mehmet Altunbay, and in the ongoing flights, Galip Demirağ also participated and went to Athens and Thessaloniki, as well as Ankara and Izmir, with this plane. Upon receiving positive results from the test flights, the "Nu.D-38" aircraft started its Istanbul-Ankara flight on 26 May 1944. There were two pilots on the plane, Tasvir-i Efkar newspaper owner Ziyat Ebuzziya, Vatan newspaper reporter Faruk Fenik and its owner Nuri Demirağ. The plane landed successfully at Ankara Airport. In order to be used in the tests of Nu.D-38 aircraft made in the workshop, Elmas Paşa Farm in Yeşilköy, currently used as Atatürk airport, was purchased and a flight field measuring (1000 x 1300) meters was built on a large land of 1559 decares. Nuri Demirağ Sky Flight School, aircraft and tank repair workshop, hangars and a slipway on the beach were built on this area. The hangar, which was ordered from Germany but did not arrive in Turkey with the start of the war, although the price was paid, was built by Turkish technical personnel. Yeşilköy facilities were opened with a ceremony on 17 August 1941.
Only one was constructed and flown. The Nu.D.38 was first flown on 11 February 1944. No further aircraft were produced.
General characteristics * Crew: 2 * Capacity: 4 passengers * Length: 8.30 m (27 ft 3 in) * Wingspan: 13.56 m (44 ft 6 in) * Height: 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) * Wing area: 22.34 m2 (240.5 sq ft) * Empty weight: 1,108 kg (2,443 lb) * Gross weight: 1,850 kg (4,079 lb) * Powerplant: 2 × Siemens-Halske (Bramo) Sh 14-A4 7 cylinder radial, 120 kW (160 hp) each * Propellers: 2-bladed Performance * Maximum speed: 271 km/h (168 mph, 146 kn) at sea level * Cruise speed: 250 km/h (160 mph, 130 kn) * Service ceiling: 6,650 m (21,820 ft) service * Rate of climb: 3.40 m/s (669 ft/min) to 4,000m (13,120 ft)
Nuri Demirağ Nuri Demirağ (1886 in Divriği – November 13, 1957, in Istanbul) was an early Turkish industrialist and politician, who was one of the first millionaires of the Turkish Republic.
His first enterprise was a cigarette paper factory which commenced production in 1922. Starting from the late 1920s, Demirağ began to invest his capital in the development of the Turkish railway network. Because of this investment, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave him the surname Demirağ (meaning "Iron web") when the Surname Law was put into effect in 1934. In 1936 he established an aircraft factory employing 500 people in Beşiktaş, Istanbul (later nationalized by the government and now occupied by the Istanbul Naval Museum). The production of the Nu D.36 two-seat trainer biplane, and Nu.D-38 twin-engine high-wing light transport plane took place in this factory. In 1945 he founded the first opposition party, which was named Milli Kalkınma Partisi (National Development Party), but his party failed to receive the required number of votes for entering the Turkish parliament in the 1946 and 1950 general elections, and was eventually dissolved in 1958, a year after his death. In 1954, he was elected as a member of parliament for Sivas on behalf of the Democratic Party, which won the general elections. Demirağ donated his airplanes to his flying school (Gök Okulu) in Yeşilköy, which he established for attracting the interest of young Turks in aviation. The land upon which the school was built was later nationalized by the Turkish government in order to enlarge the neighbouring Yeşilköy Airport (Atatürk International Airport) which was originally established as a military air base of the Ottoman Air Force in 1911. Demirağ died in 1957 from diabetes.
Aircraft Factory & Sky School Demirağ, the richest businessman of the period, started his attempt to establish an aircraft factory in 1936. In those years, the army's aircraft needs were met by donations collected from the public and wealthy businessmen. When he was asked to participate in a donation campaign to buy a plane, he said: “If you want something from me for this nation, you should ask for the best. Since a nation cannot live without an airplane, we should not expect this means of survival from the grace of others. He replied, "I am willing to build the factory of these planes." He planned to establish the factory in his hometown, Divriği. However, first of all, a trial workshop would be established in Istanbul. For this purpose, it made an agreement with a Czechoslovak company. A workshop building was built next to the Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha Pier in Istanbul (the large yellow building to the left of the Maritime Museum). In order to make test flights, he bought the Elmas Pasha Farm in Yeşilköy and had a large flight field, hangars and aircraft repair workshop built on it. The flight area was the size of Amsterdam Airport, the largest airport in Europe. This area is today used as the International Istanbul Ataturk Airport. It was necessary to establish an aviation school to train Turkish pilots who would use the planes. Sky School was established on the land where the runway is located. The school trained 290 pilots until 1943. Before the Sky School in Yeşilköy, he opened a Sky Secondary School in Divriği. In this school, which was opened when there was no secondary school in any district of Sivas, all expenses of the students are covered; Students were brought to Istanbul and given flight lessons to encourage them to become interested in aviation. Selahattin Reşit Alan, one of Turkey's first aircraft engineers, drew the plans for the planes and gliders to be produced in the aircraft factory in Beşiktaş. The first single-engine aircraft was produced in 1936 and was called Nu.D-36. In 1938, a twin-engine six-seater passenger aircraft called Nu.D-38 was built. NuD-38 was transferred to World Aviation passenger aircraft class A in 1944. The first aircraft order was placed by Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK) in 1938. Nuri Demirağ continued his work in the field of aviation by producing Turkey's first domestic parachute in 1939. In 1941, the first completely Turkish-made aircraft flew from Istanbul to Divriği. Galip Demirağ, Nuri Demirağ's son and one of the first graduates of the Sky School, was the pilot on this flight. After the 65 gliders ordered by THK were delivered in a short time; 24 training aircraft named NuD-36 were completed and test flights took place in Istanbul.
Aircraft Factory Closure After the 65 gliders ordered by the Turkish Aeronautical Association were delivered in a short time, Nu. 24 training aircraft of the D-36 model were completed and test flights were made in Istanbul. The authorities requested one more test flight for the delivery of the planes ordered by THK, which flew from Istanbul to Eskişehir after the test flights. During this flight, engineer Selahattin Reşit Alan, who also drew the plans of the planes, fell into the ditch opened at the edge of the runway to prevent the surrounding animals from entering the airport and died. Looking for an excuse such as "forgetting to put gasoline in the tank", THK canceled its order, citing this accident as the reason. Nuri Demirağ entered into a years-long legal battle with THK, which he took to court. Despite the reports of different experts that the planes were manufactured in accordance with the contract and were sufficient for flight, the court ruled in favor of THK. In addition, a law was passed prohibiting the sale of aircraft manufactured in Nuri Demirağ's factory abroad. The export of aircraft manufactured and linked to orders received from Spain, Iran and Iraq was prevented. Unable to receive orders from home and abroad, the factory closed in 1944. The aircraft factory in Beşiktaş and the Sky School in Yeşilköy were nationalized in 1944 for 15 liras per acre. After one-third of this amount was deducted as tax, the balance was deferred for 20 years on the grounds that the state did not have money and was not actually paid. Airplanes and machines manufactured on orders from THK and abroad were sold to scrap dealers. THK later imported Henrio aircraft, which were retired from use in France. The old model planes that arrived were soon scrapped. After losing the case, Nuri Demirağ's attempts to correct the mistake by writing letters to government members and president İsmet İnönü failed; The factory could not reopen.