Painting presented to the USAF Art Gallery on June 6, 1972, on the 25th Anniversary of The Big One. Portrays the famous B-36H-III-CF "Texan Lady" as she appeared on June 6, 1947, approaching Berlin, with the Ruhr some 52,000 feet below her.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
at first glance, it looked like a screenshot from some bomber game. I'm not sure if that's a compliment to game artists, or an insult to the painter, or mybe vice versa? Both? Neither?
Used the AlphaSim B-36H in FS2004; and then added the contrails and painting effect later in Paint Shop Pro.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Shouldn't the atmosphere have a much darker blue above the horizon? Flying at fifty-two kilofeet tends to put a pretty large majority of the atmosphere below the plane...
Great. I like it. I save it. I print it out and put on me wall.
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Do you think I haven't, after that old discussion we had? Heh.
On my part, I'd advise you "Variant "Bis" (or "Variant B"), but I don't know if that's out in English...
Lì ci sono chiese, macerie, moschee e questure, lì frontiere, prezzi inaccessibile e freddure
Lì paludi, minacce, cecchini coi fucili, documenti, file notturne e clandestini
Qui incontri, lotte, passi sincronizzati, colori, capannelli non autorizzati,
Uccelli migratori, reti, informazioni, piazze di Tutti i like pazze di passioni...
...La tranquillità è importante ma la libertà è tutto!