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Re: [OM] Re: [OT] OSS etc

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: [OT] OSS etc
From: Paul Wallich <pw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:47:48 -0500
At 9:04 AM -0800 1/28/00, Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Nah, but I saw the engine for the only flying Spitfire in Australia getting
rebuilt. A thing of beauty.

Foxy

That's the supercharged V12 Rolls Royce engine with the short "zoomie"
exhaust pipes, correct?

The merlin? I love the story that the first spitfire engine's frontal
envelope was set by sitting a pilot in a chair with his arms at his
sides and tracing his outline. (ObOM: From the first time someone put
an OM-1 body in my hands and showed me how to hold it, it's seemed that
Maitani used the same kind of approach -- take two hands in comfortable
picture-shooting position, locate the controls in the obvious places,
build a camera inside the resulting envelope. Or like the carved wooden
block prototypes for the walkman series...)

paul

Paul Wallich                                            pw@xxxxxxxxx

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