Plane - Odd - The early bird 1910 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Plane - Odd - The early bird 1910 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1910, Jan 15
Original Title: Twining ornithopter, flying machine with bird like wings
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Is it a bird or a plane?
That's what everyone probably asked when he pulled this thing out of his shed one day. Placed it on that dirt road and started flapping those giant wings. Quite the spectacle, and the amazement when it took off, and flew up into the clouds, almost too high to see. Flapping gracefully he would look out and nod at the other birds, the birds too stunned to know what they just saw. Getting tired, he stopped to rest as he gently glided down to earth, rolling ever so gently to a stop.
Or at least I think that's what he imagined as he stood there flapping these things like an idiot. This thing never took off, its a clumsy design. None of these devices ever worked. And this one is being held together with C clamps. I would be shocked if it was all one piece by the end of the demonstration.
Editing this, I removed the poles in the background, they made an already snap shot like image into a real snap shot. The clarity could have been better, it was not totally in focus to start with and it was a photo of a print. But its history...
There isn't much color to the main subject, and that means the eye won't be lead into the image. So I made the houses a Victorian color theme, using fun bright colors they may have used in this area.
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September 19th, 2016
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