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Engine out of the 'aluminum overcast'.


John Z. Goriup

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This one's for Pecole - one of the six Pratt & Whitney R 4360, 4300 horsepower, 71.5 liter displacement, 28 cylinder ( 4 rows of 7 cylinders each ) super-charged and water-injected air-cooled motors from a B-36 "Peacemaker".

 

When the B-36 was introduced in 1948, it was the largest plane flying, with 230 foot wingspan, 10,000 mile range and 90,000 pound weight - it was so large it was nicknamed the 'Aluminum Overcast'.

 

SL / 24-90 Vario-Elmarit

 

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Thanks, Stuart.

 

 

A little crop and it looks like a modern sculpture - or like Giger´s phantasies !

 

https://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr-giger_003406131.jpg

 

 

Interesting you should mention Giger, because that was my first thought exactly when I saw the above, but to my eyes a different viewpoint, longer focal length ( there was no cropping ) and a B & W conversion was required to transform a mundane industrial object into something more interesting that invited a closer second look.

 

The attached image below is what initially caught my attention, but it just didn't seem worthwhile.

 

 

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