Funny Fictional Aircraft (the old "Humorous aircraft never meant to fly..")

[Graham1973]

A few screen shots from the Cartier video T. A. Gardner linked to, I just wish it had been uploaded at a higher resolution.

Later: As I've posted later in the thread I managed to find a higher resolution version of the video. The attached screenshots, including an extra shot of that Daliesque elephant are below.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I also think that the pilot was meant to be taken as Santos-Dumont himself, rather an odd memorial to one of the lesser known pioneers of aviation. But that may be due to the fact that Cartiere released a set of watches named after the man in 2012.

As to the plane it may not have been the 14-Bis but rather one of the Oiseau de Proie (eng : Bird of Prey) derivatives that succeeded it.

If you go back and watch the video carefully, the pilot is wearing a Cartier watch, and the time piece shows up again as a clock on a building later in the video.

 

[Graham1973]

If you go back and watch the video carefully, the pilot is wearing a Cartier watch, and the time piece shows up again as a clock on a building later in the video.

My guess is that the video started life as a Cartier advert, I wonder if there are any others from that campaign floating around on YouTube?

 

[Graham1973]

I found the original advert the music video was created from. It was apparently made to show on airlines entertainment systems and dated from 2016. It's also in a higher resolution than the other video. That is linked below.

A screenshot from another advert in the same campaign entitled 'Cartier: Shape Your Time' has been attached.

Later:I've posted highter resolution shots from the video in Post# 120.

View: https://youtu.be/AyEZMySNR4c?si=fuh-uqDhKwN6en-1

 

[Rhinocrates]

AI paints some high points from the history of American aviation and the results are staggering in their photorealistic accuracy.

Above: How it was done: happy AI artists in action. As is well known, AI is imminently poised to destroy all humans, mostly (it would seem) by producing pictures of people with too many fingers. Hu…

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A couple just look like some naive 'cool' design you'd see in a game, others are completely whiskey tango foxtrot.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Well, sorta on topic. Maybe the general aerospace humour thread is safe to unlock?

 

[aim9xray]

Humph. Missing Engine Gray ANA-513/FS-595 16081. Wait a tick. There it is.
They are still missing the FS numbers.

Whot? So. How is the chart funny?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Well, sorta on topic. Maybe the general aerospace humour thread is safe to unlock?

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Well, I'd say "Artist" should be labeled "House painter," or "Sales guy at the Big Orange Box." Artists do stuff like Cyan, and Burnt Umber and the like...

 

[Justo Miranda]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgV2iMJOs2Q

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVUjh0O7YEc


https://mubi.com/en/es/films/those-magnificent-men-in-their-flying-machines

 

[Charlesferdinand]

Well, sorta on topic. Maybe the general aerospace humour thread is safe to unlock?

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The original 50 shades of grey!

 

[Rhinocrates]

Someone's missed an opportunity to hire these out for children's parties. Bouncy castle? Pah!

Top 10 Dummy Decoy Aircraft

To paraphrase Sun Tzu, the go-to quote source for every hack military writer, “Bullshit is cheaper than bullets.” Deception is the original smart weapon. The first great deception was …

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[Rhinocrates]

I'm having trouble getting this, so I hope the link works.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2338679392950857

View: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2338679392950857