#zeppelin
1918 08 05 Fire in the sky - Simon Atack
On August 5th 1918, this de Havilland Airco DH4 NO.A8032 flown by Major Egbert Cadbury, Commanding Officer 212 Sqn and his Observer/Gunner Major Robert Leckie (Commanding Officer 228 Sqn.) engaged and successfully destroyed the huge, 7-engined German Navy Zeppelin LZ-70 as it approached the Norfolk coast with three other airships on a bombing raid against England. At this time, it was the world’s largest airship and the Imperial German Navy’s flagship Zeppelin.After climbing to 10,000 ft Cadbury and Leckie saw the four Zeppelins in the evening light and made for the vast leading Zeppelin. At 16,400 ft they attacked the LZ-70 head-on and slightly to port. Leckie fired bursts of tracer fire from his Lewis machine gun as they passed along the huge airship, setting it on fire. In just 45 seconds the whole airship was ablaze and plunged in a fiery death into the North Sea off the Norfolk coast. Every man aboard perished including Germany’s most senior naval airship commander Fregattenkapitan Peter Strasser.For this action Major Cadbury and Major Leckie were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and made a convincing point to the German High Command that bombing raids by Zeppelins were now, a too-costly and too-deadly effort to their crews to continue in practice.
Note: I photochopped the colors of the original, just like in night scenes, to give it a more realistic reddish sunset glow. It stands to reason that it was not totally dark yet else the zeppelin couldn’t have been seen and intercepted. The combat took place around 22:20 horus Using an online astronomical calculator, I could determine that by that time on that latitude and longitude nautical twilight had not ended yet and as a bonus, roughly for every 1.500 meters of altitud dusk is delayed by one minute, so up in the air there still would be enough light. I could have made it darker still but looks good as it is.
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Finished - Helium
I really like how this one turned out. Onward to hydrogen!
WIP - Helium
I tried a different approach to colour this one. So far I like it but it takes a bit more time than usual. It also doesn’t help that I’m right now learning how to crochet and grew a bit addicted to it XD
Lineart - Helium
I won’t do all elements but those I get ideas for/ find interesting
This weekend’s adventure was taking the #Zeppelin to #LakeHopeStatePark. It was #Paisley’s first camper experience and she did great!!
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Ain’t that the truth! and so do you! Thank you for those who supported and made this a successful weekend for small businesses all around! ⚡️ #sewred #etsy #1960s #1970s #bellbottoms #ShopSmall #ledzeppelin #robertplant #zeppelin #boho #bohemian #hippie #musicfestivalclothing
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For those who did not know " Led Zeppelin was known for releasing albums with unique record covers. In Through the Out Door was no exception, and for marketing purposes six different jackets were produced.“
"Each cover has a view from the eyes of one of the six people in the scene, with the seventh person being "John” I assume the theme here is that the center of attraction is this man (John) who has been dumped by his woman, and is at this bar to forget his sadness. When looking at either a front or back album cover, you can see who’s eyes you are looking through, by turning the cover over. Once that’s done, in the center, will be the person who’s eyes you were looking through on the other side. We get to look through everyone’s eyes except “John’s”.
source : http://zeppelincollectables.com/pages.php?pageid=3
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Inktober, day 12/31: #whale
Materials: Edding liner, Touchnew markers.
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#illustration #illustrator #inktober2018 #inktober2018day12 #inktober #ink #inkart #inkdrawing #traditionalartist #traditionalart #art #artist #draw #drawing #instaart #instaartist #inventor #scientistdrawing #scientist #kidsdrawing #steampunkdrawing #markerart #marker #markerdrawing #illustrationforkids #englishman #steampunkart #zeppelin #airship
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