No. As you know, dolphins can corrugate their skin when they encounter turbulent water in order to lessen the effect of that turbulence on their speed; an increase in streamlining, if you will. Apparently shark skin is also corrugated, if you look at it through a microscope, giving the animal similar benefits.
There is, however, some debate over the reason why the skin of this 1934 Junkers Ju52 is corrugated, with one faction firmly in the streamlining camp, one in the added-strength camp, and one straddling the two ideas.
For my part, I like to think that it is perhaps a little bit about streamlining and strength, but actually it’s more about aesthetics: it just looks fabulous, made all the more so by the way the fabricators have fluted the ends of the corrugations around the little window, making the aeroplane look fast even when it’s standing still.
—
Shot at Goodwood Revival in 2013
Tags: Goodwood Revival
© All Rights Reserved
While searching through my archive, looking for a specific image, I was struck by the very graphical nature of some of the shots that languish on the digital high-shelves of my library as it were.
Therefore, in an effort to reduce the overall amount of languishing, here are a few I made earlier…
--
One wonders what exactly it is that the Officials officiate? How many Officers are there? And what can be inferred from the door, left slightly ajar? Are we to presume that one or more of these Executives are less than fastidious in applying the rules of their position?
And, perhaps more importantly, could it be that unauthorised individuals have surreptitiously entered where they are not at liberty to be? And what clandestine purposes could they be about, that they would act in such a nefarious manner?
Questions. Always questions.
--
Usual caveats etc.
© All Rights Reserved
This De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide clearly has it's heart set on a career in modelling. Everything, from the wet-look canopy and the dark, moody eye makeup, to the striking, almost symmetrical pose that's overflowing with attitude (should that be altitude?) everything just screams 'Poster Boy'.
Float (fly?) your advertising copy in that pale, form enhancing sky and your upcoming vintage airshow will be sold out almost as soon as the posters are pasted-up on the billboards.
Usual caveats etc.
© All Rights Reserved
And infinite darkness flew towards us, and it’s number was 43.
—
Usual caveats etc.
© All Rights Reserved
Spitfire. Fabulous from any angle.
© All Rights Reserved