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Guten Tag Reg,
An early start this morning, so another a chance for quick look before getting down to the grind!
I think it's the London and Provincial Fuselage Biplane of 1916?
It fits in with your last clue and the image I just found looks good!
I will check back in a couple of hours and then as often as I can
An early start this morning, so another a chance for quick look before getting down to the grind!
I think it's the London and Provincial Fuselage Biplane of 1916?
It fits in with your last clue and the image I just found looks good!
I will check back in a couple of hours and then as often as I can
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Thanks Reg,
Anzani found it for me and "City and countryside" gave me confidence to look further, as the image in the Fright archives wasn't too good!
Have a go on this one:
Edit: Seeing it again, I just realised there's something missing! Sorry about the quality of this, it is a bit "ropey" innit;
Anzani found it for me and "City and countryside" gave me confidence to look further, as the image in the Fright archives wasn't too good!
Have a go on this one:
Edit: Seeing it again, I just realised there's something missing! Sorry about the quality of this, it is a bit "ropey" innit;
G'day Stig!
I'm sure I've seen this before but can't remember where. That's a piss poor excuse I know.
It does remind me of an American ultralight of the 80's with that triangular frame?....
However I bought a surround sound system today and am gonna try it out shortly. The movie I selected for tonight is "I Spit On Your Grave".
I Spit on Your Grave: Unrated (2010) - IMDb
Rather appropriate I thought considering the news of Bin Laden.....
Cheers.
I'm sure I've seen this before but can't remember where. That's a piss poor excuse I know.
It does remind me of an American ultralight of the 80's with that triangular frame?....
However I bought a surround sound system today and am gonna try it out shortly. The movie I selected for tonight is "I Spit On Your Grave".
I Spit on Your Grave: Unrated (2010) - IMDb
Rather appropriate I thought considering the news of Bin Laden.....
Cheers.
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Evening Graeme,
Started watching "Despicable Me" from the producer of Ice Age yesterday night….
I observe that TC has left the beard of the aviator un-silhouetted, and that has led me to belive that it is an important clue. Sporting a beard myself (white, but shorter), I have spent my morning by researching facial hirsutism of the early aviators, but to no avail. Will not give up, though!
Started watching "Despicable Me" from the producer of Ice Age yesterday night….
I observe that TC has left the beard of the aviator un-silhouetted, and that has led me to belive that it is an important clue. Sporting a beard myself (white, but shorter), I have spent my morning by researching facial hirsutism of the early aviators, but to no avail. Will not give up, though!
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Good evening Graeme,
It does I agree, but it's more than a hundred years ago!
Enjoy your new "Boys Toys" mate, it should make the film even more spectacular, hope it doesn't bring the plaster down and that your eardrums survive intact
Reg:
The beard isn't significant, just de rigueur for that period I fancy!
The bit I missed from this "ropey" image, was the tow-rope, as it was being towed behind a car!
It does remind me of an American ultralight of the 80's
Enjoy your new "Boys Toys" mate, it should make the film even more spectacular, hope it doesn't bring the plaster down and that your eardrums survive intact
Reg:
The beard isn't significant, just de rigueur for that period I fancy!
The bit I missed from this "ropey" image, was the tow-rope, as it was being towed behind a car!
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Well giggled Reg 
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It is indeed the Martin Monoplane Glider.
Built by William H. Martin of Canton, Ohio, himself, sitting in the
pilot’s seat. The glider was flown, towed behind a car, in 1908 in Ohio,
and then in 1909 at New York, during trials conducted by the Aeronautic
Society. The craft was ultimately donated to the Smithsonian.
Thanks for taking the bait; unfortunately, I have to go now and hope that you get some playmates along soon! I will return when I get home; the wind has dropped a bit now, so maybe my connection there will be a little better than yesterday!
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!!It is indeed the Martin Monoplane Glider.
Built by William H. Martin of Canton, Ohio, himself, sitting in the
pilot’s seat. The glider was flown, towed behind a car, in 1908 in Ohio,
and then in 1909 at New York, during trials conducted by the Aeronautic
Society. The craft was ultimately donated to the Smithsonian.
Thanks for taking the bait; unfortunately, I have to go now and hope that you get some playmates along soon! I will return when I get home; the wind has dropped a bit now, so maybe my connection there will be a little better than yesterday!
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Hello Reg,
Just got back, line is still a bit iffy, but fingers crossed, it seems better than yesterday!
Having a bit of perspective trouble with your challenge and come to the conclusion that maybe it's got a butterfly tail!
So could it be the Bleriot-Spad 710 ?
That had a wierd cowling and a rearward firing gun (although it looks more like a mortar to me) and a retractable undercarriage, but the tail fluttered and fataly downed it!
Just got back, line is still a bit iffy, but fingers crossed, it seems better than yesterday!
Having a bit of perspective trouble with your challenge and come to the conclusion that maybe it's got a butterfly tail!
So could it be the Bleriot-Spad 710 ?
That had a wierd cowling and a rearward firing gun (although it looks more like a mortar to me) and a retractable undercarriage, but the tail fluttered and fataly downed it!
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Not Bleriot-Spad. The tail is defintely not butterfly (the aeroplane is seen from above, and it heads to the upper right in the picture).
Non-retractable gear, and there is a cooling mantel / ribs on the mg to make it look like a mortar (silhouette is made from such a low resolution picture, that it is difficult to be more accurate).
You sure all is cowling that you see?
Non-retractable gear, and there is a cooling mantel / ribs on the mg to make it look like a mortar (silhouette is made from such a low resolution picture, that it is difficult to be more accurate).
You sure all is cowling that you see?
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Thanks Reg,
That's what comes of making a snap judgement on perspectives
and rushing off a post just to say something as it all looked very quiet!!
It has has now snapped to the correct orientation and makes more sense,
No, I do recall seeing some ugly bugger machine with a forward cockpit, but I have to go out again for a while and will have another look if it's still here
That's what comes of making a snap judgement on perspectives
and rushing off a post just to say something as it all looked very quiet!!It has has now snapped to the correct orientation and makes more sense,
You sure all is cowling that you see?
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I'll try the DFW C.V again.
All yours.
(TC the blob above the cowling is the exhaust manifold and the pixel on top of it in the middle is the exhaust pipe.)
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MEL is fairly limited compared to mainstream scripting languages. It is not object oriented, and lacks advanced features such as associative arrays. Very few improvements have been made to it in recent years, and in Maya 8.5, Python was added to Maya as an alternative to MEL.
There you go.....................
MEL is syntactically similar to Tcl and Perl. It provides some memory management and dynamic array-allocation, and offers direct access to functions specific to Maya. The majority of standard Maya commands are default MEL scripts, saved in the Maya Program Files directory.
MEL is fairly limited compared to mainstream scripting languages. It is not object oriented, and lacks advanced features such as associative arrays. Very few improvements have been made to it in recent years, and in Maya 8.5, Python was added to Maya as an alternative to MEL.
There you go.....................
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