In the Sky with Bear-y Irish, Kaleidoscope Eyes
Image by garlandcannon (on hiatus)
When Irish eyes are smiling,
Picture yourself in a boat on a river.
Sure, 'tis like a morn in Spring
With cellophane flowers of yellow and green . . .
You can hear the angels sing
Towering over your head.
In the lilt of Irish laughter
Somebody calls you; you answer quite slowly.
All the world seems bright and gay.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes.
Sure, they steal your heart away. . .
Oh that girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
--mashup by moi
The lyrics to "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" were written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney have credit for writing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
Rendered for k-play+ a fun, friendly, creative group for photomanipulating. Come look us over and then participate at www.flickr.com/groups/kaleidoscope_players/discuss/721576...
Please see meline's original/source "Did You Mirror Me" at www.flickr.com/photos/25168637@N04/5489804901/
P-51, Sea Fury, P-38, F4U/FG, F2G air racer cartoons
Image by wbaiv
These cartoons are meant to convey the markings carried by
Bob Hoover's Rockwell sponsored, yellow, P-51D,
And (Clay what his name) purple-overall #64 P51D
Sea Fury #87 Yellow with flames painted on the nose, at a couple of diffeerent points in its life
Hawker Hurricane Mk II G-AMAU, "Last of the Many", flown by Group Captain Peter Townsend
F4U-1/FG-1s Corsairs "JOE" #99, Lucky Gallon/Miss Port Columbus
Lefty Gardner's P-38 Lightning #13
F2G-1s Super Corsairs #84, #57 and #18
These are about the limit of my hand-eye coordination, and should not be taken to suggest any particular non-standard feature of the airplane I'm trying to draw- Hoover's P-51D didn't have any unusual stuff done to the radiator, I just messed up the drawing. I DO mean to suggest, however, that the #18 F2G-1 had an extended fin and rudder while the #9
4 bird did NOT. #84 and #57 have different, non-standard carburetor air intake trunks above the cowlings, not seen on #18
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Update 11/15/12:
I have made a cleaned-up digital version of this which can be colored in to suit yourself on a computer or printed and colored with crayons, pencils, etc. Basically the same airplanes, except Miss Port Columbus was replaced by a red and white marking... The scrap view Sea Fury and Super Corsair have been expanded to full images. I've also posted a colored-in version here:
www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/8158430474/
These are still cartoons, not rigorously scaled drawings, and I spent WAY too much time on them, but the colored-in ones are pretty and the digital profiles are a good vehicle for more profile marking research More colored in versuions too!
Simplified Martin Baker Mk F7, Vought F-8 Crusader, colors & shapes breakdown cartoon.
Image by wbaiv
Colors and approximate (cartoon) shapes of the larger bits and pieces of a Martin Baker Mk F7 ejection seat. There are two views here - a profile, a more-or less plan-view from ahead/above. Call it a "2 view". I've separated the exploded isometric to a different image and tightened up the edges and alignments here.
Here's a nice isometric drawing of an assembled seat using these colors:
www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/8084784297/in/photostream/
Top to bottom, the pieces here are
the drogue parachute cover (kakhi) with drogue gun weight, stainless steel flex connecting the weight to the drogue, and the main parachute extraction cable. Drogue gun now shown yet, its a black cylinder with red warning stickers, on the port, upper end of the beam.
Drogue parachute and headrest box
Main parachute cover, gray-green fabric enclosing and protecting the parachute.
Main parachute container, Rigid plastic horseshoe shape, open at the top. Attaches to the beam between the drogue box / head rest and the seat pan.
Seat pan (black)
larger, thinner, back cushion (gray green)
Shorter, thicker, lumbar cushion (khaki)
Seat cushion (golden brown)
Survival kit (Green plastic, painted gray green)
Foot/ankle restraints. Leg restraints generally similar
The basic structure of the seat is the beam in the back, to which a sheet metal seat pan and drogue parachute box are attached. An integrated 80 fps hot gas catapult, in a green anodized aluminum tube, not yet shown here, fills the full length of the open part of the beam. The bottom of the catapult is attached to the floor of the cockpit, the top is engaged with but not fixed to the seat beam. As the seat rises on its guide rails, propelled by the catapult, it pulls a lanyard linking the cockpit floor and the rocket pack (also not yet shown here) under the seat pan. The rocket pack is a tubular manifold with propellent grain tubes attached. It covers the underside of the seat pan. The lanyard fires the rocket pack as the seat clears the airplane.
In addition to throwing the seat and occupant out of the airplane, the catapult includes a pyrotechnically operated intertia-reel seat belt lock and retracter, and the foot-and-leg retractors that haul-in the aircrew's extremities
I STRONGLY recommend, endorse and thank The Ejection Site. Particularly:
www.ejectionsite.com/mkf7seat.htm
Chris Woodul's whole collection:
www.ejectionsite.com/wood1.htm
Here's the OEM's site!
www.martin-baker.com/products/ejection-seats/mk1-9/mk7
Thank you for that, MB!
If you don't have a copy of their historical brochures, you're missing a bet:
www.martin-baker.com/_pdfs/history_development_mk1-mk10_e...
www.martin-baker.com/_pdfs/history_of_martin-baker_americ...
Until I make a blank one to color-in, just download this and unsaturate the colors to make one to color yourself.
colored pencil sketch, tidied up.
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