mother-entropy:formaldehydedoesstuff:turbofanatic:Usually photographs are not allowed on-site, but n
mother-entropy:formaldehydedoesstuff:turbofanatic:Usually photographs are not allowed on-site, but nobody has ever stopped me from sketching, so here’s the refined result of a series of pen sketches I took of a preserved 737 skull. Please forgive any inaccuracies, I am not the greatest aerobiologist.I got a good view of the enormous radar melons (those big concavities in the nose). Like an electric eel the plane can generate a large voltage, but it does so across modified nerves that act as wires, focusing the resulting EM waves using bones shaped like a parabolic dish. This is partly used for signaling but supposedly they can detect bad weather with it.Those little holes on either side are the angle of attack sensors, basically just whiskers that detect local airflow.All that bone looks really heavy, but it’s mostly hollow, really weird for a mammal! I put the grey around it to show where the outllne of the plane is with all its skin and blubber.Someday I’d love to sketch an Airbus skull, but they’re more common in Europe and I’m in the states. Maybe someday I’ll get a chance.Oh hey, I just sketched out this a380 airbus last week, when they were taking it apart after it had been decommissioned (by natural cause). Convergent evolution is amazing.magnificent. -- source link