Sunday 31 July 2011
Flight of Fancy!
This postcard was sent to someone in Liverpool in 1912. It was three years after Bleriot had flown across the English Channel. I am not sure how high they are flying but it raises a few questions. Why haven't their hats blown off; has the draught extinguished his pipe; why isn't her hair more windswept; and, most importantly, what on earth have they done with their legs? It also looks like the undercarriage is about to collide with St Paul's Cathedral in London.
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Maybe all three of them were double amputees ? I agree with you, they could have had a big ventilator fan installed to make wind to icrease the realism of this far to obviously posed shot... and did those early aircraft actually have a steering wheel ??? Funny, I just in the news a day or two ago where a replica of the one of the Wright Brothers' planes from 1910 crashed somewhere...
ReplyDeleteAha - perhaps they never experienced the wind in their hair, or settling a tiny aircraft down on the earth 'just so', kissing the ground - one of those magical occurrences that static poses will never capture. A fascinating postcard nevertheless.
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