The International Cessna^® 170 Association

It's a drawing, the shadows are all wrong!

Russ
Can you check inside the magazine cover for a photo or artists credit?

It's easier in many ways to sketch a fully colored airplane than a natural aluminum one. Also, the shadow of the strut indicates a strong light from in front of,to the right, and below the aircraft. In such a case, the wing and horizontal would not cast a shadow on the fuselage, and the lower belly of the fuselage and lower surfaces of wings/tail would be in light...not in shadow.
Even if a retouch (including shadows), it fails as proof of fully painted airplanes.
(I'll be some of you guys also fell for Colin Powell's sketches of "mobile chemical weapons labs.)

Regardless, that's a great paint scheme.

Hi Tracy! All it says on the contents page is: Cover: 1950 Cessna 170A

No credits or source...it couldn't be that easy! I find it odd that an "artist conception" of the popular Cessna 170 would chose an unavailable color scheme, in a trade publication... Russ Farris

I've never looked at this crictically before, it was just another magazine cover. BUT - I will opine that if the strut shadow was airbrushed, then all the other shadows are correct, IMHO. Looking at the actual cover, the strut shadow is definitely darker.

I have 1950s "Flying" magazines that the covers are more airbrushed than
photos, but photos they clearly are.

Still no comment on the trailing antenna...Russ Farris

It seams to me, if the A/C is in a climb, inorder to cast even close to the shadows shown, the elevator is mispositioned. It shows a slight decent

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bradbrady wrote:It seams to me, if the A/C is in a climb, inorder to cast even close to the shadows shown, the elevator is mispositioned. It shows a slight decent

Now Brad it is obvious by your statement that you've never flown such a powerful beast as a stock 170A. And a factory yellow one at that.

Once the nose is pointed up and the power poured on you'd have to neuteralize the elevator or you'd just do a big loop.

BTW George this thing is going so fast that the strut shadow, as small as it is, is just starting to bend back. Shortly after the shutter was snapped the wing shadow, being larger than the strut shadow, followed suit.

Well at least we know the artist at Skyways liked yellow and blue airplanes. This is one of the steamiest airplane pictures I have ever seen..... Check out the gleam in the eyes, the hot dog and the bun.... symbolism at it's best .

<--- what did I do wrong here??

I'll leave comments about his wiener to others.

John, if you right click on the image it should give you the option of coping the image address in the contextual menu that comes up. You need the address for the image not the web page.

Thanks Karl, that worked in a test....

Click the "quote" button on any post with a picture and you'll see how to structure the Img tags and url to get it to work.

Boy, he's really tryin' to impress her, eh?

Holy Cow! Look at the prop on that Fairchild 24. It has a left and rotation engine. Very,very rare model.

Reminds me of the painting on page72 of the March 2007 Flying Magazine of a WWII Consolidated PBY5A taking off with the boarding ladder hanging off of the left rear of the hull.

Artistic license, I guess.

blueldr wrote:Holy Cow! Look at the prop on that Fairchild 24. It has a left and rotation engine. Very,very rare model.

Reminds me of the painting on page72 of the March 2007 Flying Magazine of a WWII Consolidated PBY5A taking off with the boarding ladder hanging off of the left rear of the hull.

Artistic license, I guess.

Naw Blue it's a pusher any fool can see that black leading edge on the prop. By the way I am familiar with the symbols for man O-> and women O+ what does the symbol O-, in the name on the fuselage stand for?