We'll Always Have Paris

[Adrian_Monk]

I really, really wanted to enter this one with a recreation of the penultimate scene from the classic 1968 (year I was born) novel "Airport" by Arthur Hailey, where the brooding yet cruelly handsome Captain Vernon Demerest has to land his crippled TWA 707 at Lincoln International in a blizzard. Unfortunately Lincoln Int doesn't actually exist, and while Detroit makes for a passable substitute, and while the TWA 707 here on Simv is a nifty little plane once I got the logo light texture problem fixed (the only real fault in an otherwise fine aircraft), the picture I ended up with wasn't quite good enough for a contest entry.

So, sticking with the 'cold night' theme, I came up with this one.





On the tarmac, headed for the gate, after a bad-weather landing on a cold night in Paris.

The aircraft is the excellent iFly 747, found here. Airport is the default (defaullet?) Charles De Gaulle in Paris. Everybody else is World of AI.

Thanks for looking!

[Skunkworks]

[font=Comic Sans MS][color=#0000ff]I don't why I like this shot but I do. Maybe it reminds me of how dangerous weather can be to flight and how the elevated adrenalin of landing wanes after the wheels are all safely back on the ground. Now the loneliness begins. Or what fragile creatures we are wrapped up in our thermostatically controlled cocoons or maybe it's because I know what the word penultimate means but I never saw it in writing. Nah! Just a Cool shot

[AMANDIL]

Epic reply Shunk ! Rofl !!!

Cool shot Adrian, I like the angle =)

[Adrian_Monk]

Thanks!