Impressionist #3 by bmac62
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P-59B "Airacomet", America's first jet-propelled airplane.
General Hap Arnold ordered the development of the P-59 on September 4, 1941. The British had freely provided data to the U.S.A. on its highly secret Whittle jet engine and the General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, agreed to produce a U.S. version, the type I-A.
Due to the proximity of the Bell Aircraft Corporation at Buffalo to the General Electric plant, it was selected to design and construct a fighter-interceptor around the new-type engine.
The P-59 project was conducted under the utmost secrecy and few people knew of it. The first airplane was completed during the summer of 1942, and on October 1, 1942, it made its initial flight at Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards Air Force Base), California. One year later, the P-59 was ordered into production, to be powered by I-14 and I-16 engines, improved versions of the I-A.
The P-59 is on display in the Research and Development gallery of the USAF Museum in Dayton.
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Bill:)
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Comments (34)
wonderful! another great postwork!
tara said it about as well as I ever will. You've captured their essence, their 'soul'. This is a painting about frontality, about the impact of a large 'face/nose', about all the light & space around it, and the wings & wheels to several sides of it...and your edgework (maybe cutout filters, maybe edge filters) brings out the simple color areas all over its surface. A fine piece of 'conceptualizing', and what you're doing in these pics is capturing an inner glow to the beasts. But when one sees your plane museum shots, you were already going that direction with your light, shade, etc. This is just a fulfillment of one of the features of your earlier work...Yes, please continue. These planes, so familiar to you for so long, are now speaking an 'inner language' through you. It'll be wonderful to see where you take these as you continue...
very creative post work
More super postwork, Bill. I thought this was a P-59!