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estebanana
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Debussy, a time I like. Alberto Santos Dumont from Brazil, the French plane called 'Antoinette'- Samuel Langley- all very interesting stuff. I've been thinking about that too, but I like the link between Debussy and aircraft.
Certain planes are iconic, the X-15 the MiG 15, the Me 262, I see them as images and ideas and not as much as warplanes, but they are warplanes. The P-51 and the Zero Sen are interesting for me personally because during WWII both sides of my family in the US and Japan encountered each aircraft. Strangely each side has a kind of admiration for the brilliance ad design of the aircraft of the opposite side. And I have long been interested in the Me 262 as a mystery, a thing that was deadly thing never really came to full usage.
I made a drawing last year which is a vertical diptych on two sheets of paper titled 'Luftwaffehansa', it's about 30"x 45" pencil, ink tempera.
An airliner and 262 drawn from a B/W photo....not sure what it means, but that's seldom important on the surface.
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Date Aug. 24 2016 14:01:01
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BarkellWH
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Certain planes are iconic, the X-15 the MiG 15, the Me 262, I see them as images and ideas and not as much as warplanes, but they are warplanes. The P-51 and the Zero Sen are interesting for me personally because during WWII both sides of my family in the US and Japan encountered each aircraft. Strangely each side has a kind of admiration for the brilliance ad design of the aircraft of the opposite side. And I have long been interested in the Me 262 as a mystery, a thing that was deadly thing never really came to full usage.
Great work, Stephen! I still remember the ones you created over a year ago as well. You really have a knack for this art work.
A couple of thoughts. The ME-262 would have been a formidable fighter had it been introduced earlier in the war. By the time it was flying combat missions, there were too few of them, and the German pilots had not mastered the aircraft's maneuverability sufficiently to maximize its potential. For example, the closing speed, both in a frontal attack and from the rear, was so fast that it was difficult to shoot down the intended target. And by 1944, the Luftwaffe had deteriorated badly. Although the Germans still manufactured plenty of fighters, the first generation of pilots had all been killed by 1943, and the Germans never trained sufficient numbers to replace them. The Allied bombing of fuel depots wreaked havoc as well.
Regarding the Japanese Zero, the British military historian Max Hastings has written in his seminal work, "Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945," that having so daunted the Allies in 1941-42, the Zero became wholly outclassed by 1943. Hastings writes that the Zero had been described as an "origami aircraft"--light, graceful, superbly maneuverable, but frail and offering negligible concessions to pilot safety. During the latter part of the Pacific campaign, the Japanese, like the Germans, lacked well-trained pilots. They turned to Kamikaze attacks on American ships, and for these they just needed pilots who could aim the aircraft at the intended target. Not much skill required.
Keep the art work coming, Amigo!
Bill
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Date Aug. 24 2016 17:54:32
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BarkellWH
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More great stuff from Stephen Faulk's "Skunk Works" in Japan.
Just a suggestion, but I would like to see you make a painting/drawing of the SR-71. The SR-71 was developed to take U-2 reconnaissance capabilities a giant step forward. Originally developed and tested as a single-seater called the "A-12" at Groom Lake (Area 51) in Nevada, it finally ended up as the SR-71, a two-seater developed and tested at Palmdale, California. The two-man crew consisted of the pilot and the operator of the technical reconnaissance equipment. It is the sleekest, most magnificent machine one can imagine, capable of flying at an altitude of 90,000 feet at three times the speed of sound. It has been taken over by satellite imagery and is no longer in use for intelligence gathering.
It is not only a sleek machine, it is also wicked and ominous in appearance. You are the artist, Stephen, but in my mind's eye I envision a stylized painting/drawing of the SR-71 in flight against a background, the whole of which emphasizes not only the sleek beauty of the aircraft, but also the ominous nature of its mission and the (unspoken and unseen) potential danger to its intended intelligence targets by fighters and bombers who will use its imagery for targeting. In other words, the sleek beauty would be explicitly apparent, the ominous danger it represents would be inferred from the stylized painting/drawing and background.
At any rate, I think you could really a produce fine drawing/painting along the lines I am thinking, and I would love to see you do it sometime.
Bill
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Date Jan. 17 2017 21:08:56
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Richard Jernigan
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Great paintings, Stephen. Keep 'em coming.
I flew C-141s between Honolulu and Kwajalein several times from the late 1970s through the 1980s, when I went out for planning meetings or flight tests. Usually they were rigged with passenger seats that dated from the time of the Spanish Inquisition, though a couple of times they just had the sling seats that paralleled the sides, and could be hoisted out of the way to make room for more cargo.
Even with seats, there was always room for a few pallets of cargo. Woe betide the newbie civilian who innocently strolled up to take a look at the stuff. The Loadmaster would make it abundantly clear that passengers didn't cross the line.
When a civilian traveled on a military plane, they asked for your salary to calculate your rank. It was a false equivalence, since civilians typically got paid more than military with similar responsibilities. I started telling the travel people to lie, so I wouldn't get assigned to one of the two VIP seats on the plane. The C-141 had two tiny windows, one on each side of the fuselage. The VIP seats were next to them. The usual setup had a row of electric radiant heaters down the ceiling of the center aisle, and no insulation on the skin of the plane. You were broiled on one side, and only 1/16" of aluminum separated you from -65F outside.
The chief flight attendant was often a master sergeant, a woman about six feet-four, with muscles to match. She wore fatigues and combat boots. When she handed out the baloney sandwiches, you said, "Thank you!" in a loud clear voice.
On Kwaj at that time, Courvoisier VSOP was $8 per liter. Heading back to Hono I had a couple of bottles in my carry-on bag. While I wasn't looking, one of my companions "borrowed" a bottle and was furtively spiking cups of coffee from the big jug at the back of the passenger compartment. As soon as I tasted mine, I was in mortal fear of being apprehended by the master sergeant.
The Air Force Ballistic Missile Office moved from El Segundo out to Norton, so I went to meetings there fairly often.
Taking classified briefings to meetings at Norton, you were supposed to check them in overnight at the Military Air Transport Command Ops Shack. The first time I did it, I didn't know how to navigate out the flight line to the Ops Shack. A friend with me said, "Why don't we just drive out and look around?"
"You don't understand," I said. "The Air Force is very serious about their airplanes. I am not going to drive out and wander around among about two dozen C-141s and a few C-5s and get my butt arrested."
We finally found an Air Policeman who led the way. When we got there I said to my friend, "Want to come in with me?"
The Ops Shack was on the second floor of the building. Two signs flanked the broad stairway, each reading, "This is an operational facility of the United States Air Force. The use of deadly force is authorized." The signs had the desired effect on my friend.
The effect was reinforced when we got to the little window in the wall and rang the bell. One of the two majors pulling the night shift picked up his M-16 automatic rifle, came to the window, and said,"What can I do for you?"
My friend kept staring at the weapon while I checked in the package and got my hand receipt.
RNJ
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Date Jan. 18 2017 6:54:41
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BarkellWH
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Bill,
I began looking a the SR-71, I've been making collage in my sketchbook. A drawing and some kind of aircraft printed by lazer. Then glue it all together.
The first thing I came up with was this idea of the first and the fastest. The gestural loose postcard sized image of a somthing that alludes to the Wright Brothers, and a back half of the SR-71.
Stephen,
As I mentioned in my comment above, it is an interesting concept. In reading your post, though, I gather that it is one idea, and you are still playing around with the final result you are looking for. Keep us posted as you refine your vision for the SR-71.
Cheers,
Bill
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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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