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Posted on 14/01/22 08:38:08 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 890: Bumpy landing
I visited the National Space Centre near Leicester just after Christmas, one of my favourite museums. Here's a new exhibit which I hadn't seen before: a prototype Gemini space capsule, rigged with wheels so they could experiment with landing on a runway. As you know, the capsules ended up landing in the sea. But what would it have looked like if they'd stuck to the original plan? High res is here.  |
Posted on 14/01/22 09:04:49 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 890: Bumpy landing
Gordon! At last, one for you! |
Posted on 14/01/22 09:15:48 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 890: Bumpy landing
Already working on a concept or two _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 14/01/22 3:48:37 PM |
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Ant Snell
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Posted on 14/01/22 3:51:21 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 890: Bumpy landing - Ooooops!
Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. 
Sorry but not very inspired by this week. Struggling. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/01/22 3:52:52 PM |
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DavidMac
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Oh splendid Ant. Really like it. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/01/22 7:35:42 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 14/01/22 8:21:08 PM |
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michael sinclair
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And it is David!: Very clever! If I had thought of that, I would be feeling pretty proud of myself right now. 
Loyd...erm...I sure like that sky effect--truly.  |
Posted on 14/01/22 10:18:02 PM |
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lwc
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Michael - That effect is fun to use on occasion... |
Posted on 14/01/22 10:19:33 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 15/01/22 12:08:44 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 16/01/22 2:47:20 PM |
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DavidMac
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David's 'Moose' is making another guest appearance. Although this is an awful lot of work for an extremely silly and rather feeble joke, I had a really fun time and some good giggles doing it!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/01/22 5:08:40 PM |
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GKB
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I was so pleased that Steve produced this image as this week’s Friday Challenge as it brought back a long-forgotten memory of part of the NASA space programme that I followed avidly as a kid. NASA actually successfully flew this Gemini test capsule with a Rogallo wing as part of its research effort to decide the best means of recovering space capsules. After the capsule had been slowed by the three main drogue 'chutes they would be jettisonned and the Rogallo wing would be deployed and inflated for the final descent and landin. The Rogallo wing is a flexible type of wing. In 1948, Francis Rogallo, a NASA engineer, and his wife Gertrude Rogallo, invented a self-inflating flexible wing they called the Parawing, but also known after them as the "Rogallo Wing". NASA considered Rogallo's flexible wing as an alternative recovery system for the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, and for possible use in other spacecraft landings, but the idea was dropped from Gemini in 1964 in favour of conventional parachutes and sea landings. Rogallo wings were, and still are, used by the hang-gliding fraternity although the early delta winged version only had a glide ratio of around 1:4 so, unless you have good soaring conditions, flights can be fairly short. http://vimeo.com/666504103 
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Posted on 16/01/22 8:21:03 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 890: Bumpy landing
Fascinating Gordon. Thank you. And a very neat animation. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/01/22 8:23:20 PM |
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DavidMac
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Thank you Michael! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/01/22 8:23:40 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Emulating Anna i see--good work Gordon! UPDATED A two-framer
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Posted on 17/01/22 04:05:02 AM |
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Mariner
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Your best yet, Michael! |
Posted on 17/01/22 04:10:51 AM |
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Mariner
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Nicely done, Gordon. |
Posted on 17/01/22 05:50:34 AM |
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tooquilos
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Not quite on brief...but it's a topical subject; here and I suppose internationally, as well. http://vimeo.com/666641193 Gnomstranaut is hilarious, David. That's an impressive purple flame? Looks great though, Michael.  _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 17/01/22 09:07:26 AM |
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DavidMac
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Once again an animation that is an oscillation without direction. Yet, because we know which is the 'front' of the capsule and have the blast from the rear, the impression of movement is absolutely inescapable and completely persuasive. I find this one quite astonishing Michael. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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