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The big change since the last one of these I posted is that the left flap is now mostly green. Also, the small amount of yellow remaining on the left fuel tank is now green as well.
Parts shown here in green are complete, yellow are awaiting some final riveting or blending tasks, orange are awaiting primer, and red are works in progress. Uncolored parts haven't yet been worked on.
For more narrative on the project, check out the construction blog.
Progress of my own design.
Boy oh boy I didn’t realize how tough designing your own origami could be, but it sure is fun!
I love the entire process. This is the first complex design I am attempting to create myself, and as a self taught origamist, running into difficulties is common to say the least.
Origami is an incredibly beautiful art, a limitless art with infinite potential. The last few weeks and several attempts I have made at this model has been a highlight of my summer before freshman year of college. Before this summer ends, I will complete this model.
The most difficult aspect for me is incorporating dual color into the model. The name of the model, I have yet to decide. Luna, Dawn, Lisa... Having trouble picking between them!
My respect for the community of artists who design and create models of their own has increased significantly.
Thank you all for your inspiration!
God bless.
Progress on the Ptera arrow for my custom SHF Pteraranger. Now, it is no longer just a flat piece of plastic with a sticker on it.
Still making progress... rather than fill my stream up with progress shots of the same drawing, I've deleted my previous post.
Some reasonable progress tonight, I think. There's still a long way to go (and the nose in particular is bothering me), but I think a likeness is starting to appear.
Also, this particular process has made me realise that 1:6 scale, as sold commercially, is actually slightly off. Planning making a slightly larger, considerably more cheerful, Nathan Drake now.
Advertizing from Air Asia by the side of the Mekong.
One thing about Asian airlines is they only pick young hot girls as flight attendants, which is both horrible and awesome.
Ocean Progress 16,613 DWT Chemical & Oil Carrier Built 2012 (In Service)
Standard Details
IMO Number 9402847, Owners are Ocean Tankers, Built at Liaoning Hongguan delivered in May 2012, Double Hull, Singapore Flagged, ABS Classed, Ice Strengthened IA Class, P&I insurance with Skuld, Length Overall of 144.22 m., Length Between Perpendiculars of 134.00 m., Draught of 8.90 m., Beam Mld of 23.00 m., 28.47 Tonnes per Centimetre Immersion, Gross Tonnage of 11,999, Design Odely 17K Chem by Odely Marine, MaK Engine, Speed of 14.90 kts, Intermediate Fuel Oil - Very Low Sulphur (VLS IFO), Horsepower of 8,566, Bunker Capacity of 596 VLS IFO, Power Type: Diesel 4-Stroke.
progress, as i suspected, is pretty slow-going on my great gram-inspired quilt, though it looks like i have a lot done! i now have 8 out of 36 blocks finished + i couldn't be happier with how they are looking. of course, my version is going to be a lot more colorful than the original, but a lot of that has to do with fading, i think. i'm piecing the larger blocks as i have enough of the smaller postage stamp blocks made, rather than waiting to make all of the postage stamp blocks + then organizing them by color--i'm trying to keep things sort of random, because that's how quilts in my great grandma's time were made.
Taken from L2 in the Central Library showing the progression of the vertical circulation core with glazing having recently been installed.
Original Caption: Scott's Run, West Virginia. [Woman gathering coal.], March 1937
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 69-RP-123
Photographer: Hine, Lewis
Subjects:
The New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
Work Portraits
The Great Depression
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Silas M. Brooks Balloon Basket 1870
The New England Air Museum
June 21st, 2013
The below is a excerpt from "The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist" by Lawrence S. Carlton, M.D.
SOURCE: www.hogriver.org/issues/v06n02/silasbrook.html
"A large, wicker balloon basket in the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut is believed by the museum to be the oldest surviving, intact aeronautical artifact used in the United States. This basket is a relic of the adventurous career of Connecticut inventor and showman Silas Markham Brooks, whose career as a balloonist reached great heights before he plummeted to obscurity in old age. With 187 known balloon ascensions, this man is arguably Connecticut’s foremost air traveler of the 19th century.
By the mid-1800s ballooning had progressed from brief, low-altitude flights of the crude, hot-air type invented by the Montgolfier brothers of France in 1783 to more sustained flights in gas-filled balloons. Municipal illuminating gas produced from coal was the least expensive option but was not always readily available. When municipal illuminating gas was unavailable, balloonists generated pure hydrogen gas from iron or zinc filings, water, and sulfuric acid, a laborious and expensive process.
'Professor' Brooks, in long coat, and his associates at Cherry Park in Avon c. 1875.
coal was the least expensive option but was not always readily available. When municipal illuminating gas was unavailable, balloonists generated pure hydrogen gas from iron or zinc filings, water, and sulfuric acid, a laborious and expensive process.
The Brooks basket was formerly displayed at the Canton Historical Museum, which has a cache of Brooks-related memorabilia. For years the material languished in a locked safe; in 1997 museum staff opened the safe and discovered its contents. Inside was an old scrapbook of news clippings, several periodicals with articles on ballooning, and four packets of penciled notes (possibly an interview of Brooks by a Hartford Courant reporter, c. 1897) recounting episodes in his life. His accounts of his ballooning experiences have been verified by newspaper accounts and historical society archives. Most of his earlier exploits are yet to be authenticated."