Plane - Biplane - Flight risk 1918 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Plane - Biplane - Flight risk 1918 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1918 July 4th
Original Title: Fourth of July Parade with a Curtiss bombing plane mounted to a truck.
Location: 5th Ave & 58th St looking south
This is a great way to make sure you have perfect posture, no slouching or leaning on this float! Imagine your only seat is right in front of a plane and its propeller is spinning! I guess if the prop was spinning the other way, their hats would have blown off.
Figuring out the colors for this was kind of a pain... It never really existed, despite them calling it a bombing plane. They never went into production due to a stupid wing design (its shorter on the bottom). And this one was a prototype of sorts and they modified it over the years. One of its main distinctions was that grill area, it was round, the others had a more car shaped version.
But eventually I found a reference, and that plane was called a Curtiss model S-1, or a baby scout. Seeing as there were no color references, I chose this combo. Curtiss seemed to have made yellow wings almost all the time. Sometimes red was chosen. The wings here may be reflecting a dark sky or the road, making it look darker? While I could have made the wings red, it would have blended with the building too much, so I kept it yellow.
The truck had the same issues, I could only find the one reference, though they kept making trucks for a while. I chose green because they seemed to have a lot of green trucks, despite calling themselves White.
The license plate is a mystery, because it looks inside out or even backwards, but the lettering for commercial is forward, so who knows?
None of these buildings exist either.
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June 4th, 2018
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