That series on Rolls - Royce and Bentley motor cars was inspired by his similar
work on aeroplanes going back forty years.
Not exact matches
@sheetiron — the difference is that our «faith» in brakes and
aeroplanes is based
on empirical eveidence that they exist and
work (most of the time).
An
aeroplane operating against armies in the field would, therefore, probably use shrapnel, an explosive shell filled with hundreds of bullets and equipped with a time - fuse in such manner that it can be exploded above bodies of troops
on the march, supports, reserves, wagon trains, camps, etc. shrapnel is considered one of the most effective projectiles used in modern warfare, and it does not require a military expert to imagine the havoc it would
work on a body of troops en masse.
And yet another completely different example, and this has been a very exciting program that's so futuristic... we've been
working with defence to develop optical fibres that you can embed within an
aeroplane and essentially what you do is you send photons along the fibres inside the aircraft and they report back
on whether the aircraft is rusting.
The plaster objects will include objects based
on the figure's head, and also several Folded, Unfolded, Sunk and Scanned
works which take their shape from an unfolded paper
aeroplane.
Pearlstein turns 92 in May yet he continues to
work on large - scale paintings where the nude figure is juxtaposed with a diverse range of objects: from crashed model
aeroplanes to marionettes, a model of the White House that is in fact a birdcage, and richly patterned rugs and fabrics.
Laptops have had backlit keys for a long time allowing you to
work in near dark situations like
on an
aeroplane or at night
on the sofa in front of the TV.But with more and more of us turning to tablets to
work on the go we've lost the backlit keys so... Read more