Sep 292009
A Consolidated Vultee study from 1943 for a large, twin-hull flying boat. This comes from a study (in the archives of the San Diego Aerospace Museum) that included a great many different and unusual configurations for large flying boats.
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I love how this is hand drawn on graph paper. All about craftsmanship.
Indeed. While CAD is certainly inestimably valuable – and something I use all the time – the loss of hand-drafting is also inestimable. Look at presentations from before and aftger the Powerpoint Era: the ones from before, where art and sketches were provided by the drafting & art departments, are vastly better than the crap often slapped together by the overworked, over-multitasked engineers who use Powerpoint to create crappy little schematics.