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Posted on 30/07/17 4:51:32 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 664: A conflation of circumstances
Thanks Steve --yes you are right, it is a model train in a garden |
Posted on 30/07/17 9:22:59 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 664: A conflation of circumstances
Juan de la Cierva's first autogiro was invented in the very early 1920's. It's almost a hundred years old! Hard to believe. Bond's "Little Nellie" was a Wallis autogiro. Ken Wallis was an ex-fighter pilot who did much to develop the modern version. When I was a young man I really wanted to fly one but I never got the chance. I couldn't afford it. I really envy you. In the eighties I shot a documentary movie in Texas about the last of the real American cowboys. For some of this I shot from a tiny helicopter called a Robinson. The pilot was a Texan Vietnam vet called Rusty. He flew in a cowboy hat with a cigar sticking out of his mouth! He was like a caricature from "MASH". He gave a me a turn at the controls one time. I couldn't believe how sensitive they were. If you wanted to move the stick forward and gripped it and did it physically, which we are all conditioned to from the movies, it would be a complete over control and you'd be heading straight for the ground. You had to just hold it very lightly and simply 'think' the direction you wanted to move it. The tiniest pressure was enough. He had stories to tell of student military pilots, being trained in a rush for Vietnam, desperately slewing and yawing all over the place because they hadn't developed the delicacy. I have flown in so many 'choppers' of every size - but I am still excited by them .... and still a bit scared too! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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