Flight Paths

by Phil Chadwick

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36.000 x 30.000 x 1.000 inches

Title

Flight Paths

Artist

Phil Chadwick

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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The idea of flight has always fascinated people. From the Greek legend of Daedalus and Icarus to space station Mir, people have been mesmerized by flight. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, manned, powered, heavier-than-air flights in history. The first of these flights lasted 12 seconds and traveled 120 feet. In 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeanna Yeager became the first people to fly non-stop around the world without refueling in their sophisticated aircraft, Voyager. Now the A380-800 Airbus is planned for service in either 2006 or 2007 with Singapore Airlines. Upon entering service, the A380 will become the first full triple-decked super jumbo-jet. The A380 will carry over 550 passengers and have a takeoff weight over 1.23 million pounds (560,000 kg). Aviation has come a long way in just over a hundred years!

"Flight Paths" looks at the two solitudes of flight within the turbulent atmosphere. I always pause to look up and admire both! Although the red tailed hawk and jet are intentionally the same size due to perspective, they are worlds apart. The hawk is a part of the natural world while the jet symbolizes the mechanized mastery that man has achieved over flight within the world of technology. Both are subject to the same atmospheric laws. The hawk is soaring in the warm and unstable air mass while the jet is on descent into Pearson International Airport. The sun was overhead fueling the air mass. The atmosphere was chaotic with many different types of clouds in the unstable air mass. The meteorology was subtle but suffice it to say that a squall line of thunderstorms was approaching. The squall line of thunderstorms would temporarily "ground" both bird and jet.

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