I'm not even a buff and this kept me riveted.
Spitfire 944
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For my money the Spitfire, in all its iterations was the most beautiful plane ever built.
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DC3 is a good one too...and maybe better for being used in peacetime as a passenger/cargo plane?Rum wrote:For my money the Spitfire, in all its iterations was the most beautiful plane ever built.
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You raise an interesting point - which formed the basis of a heated discussion I once had with my dad and an old friend.
It revolved around the issue of whether something like a plane could be intrinsically and objectively beautiful or whether its function was a factor one should consider in such a judgement. If so then a Spitfire by definition of its function could not be seen as beautiful as its major purpose was to kill. I veered towards that perspective then, though no longer, however I'm not sure I could explain why other than when I look at the thing is is pleasing to me in an aesthetic way and I don't find myself pondering what it actually did for its living any more.
It revolved around the issue of whether something like a plane could be intrinsically and objectively beautiful or whether its function was a factor one should consider in such a judgement. If so then a Spitfire by definition of its function could not be seen as beautiful as its major purpose was to kill. I veered towards that perspective then, though no longer, however I'm not sure I could explain why other than when I look at the thing is is pleasing to me in an aesthetic way and I don't find myself pondering what it actually did for its living any more.
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Short summary of the video:
A field doctor (?) shot a lot of film during WWII, including a Spitfire making an emergency landing in a field. After the war, he kept his private collection at home and occasionally showed it to family. Then he died and his (grand?)son digitized the film. He got to wondering if maybe there were people in the films who were still alive and had never seen them. Turns out there was. The pilot of the Spitfire. Along the way, the skepticism about whether or not Americans ever piloted Spitfires is resolved. Not only did that pilot fly them, he flew without weapons of any sort. I'm leaving out details so as to not spoil it too much. It's a good story, I think. Well worth my 15 minutes, anyway.
A field doctor (?) shot a lot of film during WWII, including a Spitfire making an emergency landing in a field. After the war, he kept his private collection at home and occasionally showed it to family. Then he died and his (grand?)son digitized the film. He got to wondering if maybe there were people in the films who were still alive and had never seen them. Turns out there was. The pilot of the Spitfire. Along the way, the skepticism about whether or not Americans ever piloted Spitfires is resolved. Not only did that pilot fly them, he flew without weapons of any sort. I'm leaving out details so as to not spoil it too much. It's a good story, I think. Well worth my 15 minutes, anyway.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Grand nephew. I liked the sleuthing he did to connect the dots. "Everything has numbers."
And the Spitfire is the greatest aeroplane ever - despite the way Goering found out.
And the Spitfire is the greatest aeroplane ever - despite the way Goering found out.
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Ayaan and I went to the National Air and Space Museum yesterday.
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Wow good find, I enjoyed that.
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