Flying Artwork

 

1. Too bad modern airliners can’t be that slick.  Cookie cutter jets is all we get.

   Posted by grayjohn       08/26/2013  at  11:28 PM  



2. Right again and the same is true of many cars.  Hey, Remember the Supper Connie?
   Now that was a beauty.

   Posted by peiper       08/27/2013  at  07:19 AM  



3. Most of those were long gone by the time I was old enough to be a decent plane spotter Peiper, but I still saw a few when I was a kid. These days even a small jet liner (737) outperforms the old plane by a huge amount, and probably uses less fuel to do it.

   Yes, it seems that all airliners look the same these days, and to a lesser extent all cars as well. I think that once an optimum shape is figured out everyone tends to use it.

   Posted by Drew458       08/27/2013  at  08:47 AM  



4. No doubt newer planes more efficient and more than likely safer too. (?) But when it comes to art ... and style ...  there’s so much that’s old that just looks better.  Why does so much new have to look so sterile?

   Ah, cars and optimum you say?  Sure.  But more cos everything is so interchangeable thus making things cheaper to replace.  But only for the manufacturer. The end user, us generally, still get a screwing without benefit of foreplay.

   Posted by peiper       08/27/2013  at  10:59 AM  



5. Ah De Havilland, the people that brought us this.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito

   Posted by LyndonB       08/27/2013  at  11:49 AM  



6. That was really good show with the exception of the Captain and the house dude being poofs.

   Posted by Rich K       08/27/2013  at  11:43 PM  

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