JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
(I’m back to the blog after a two-week hiatus for moving to our new house–that is the longest period by far of not writing in the 5.5 years of this blog. This is just a quick post on an interesting and newly-found image–writing should start very soon…)
Beginning to unpack from our move, the very first thing to emerge from the very first (“desk”) box out in the studio was a clutch of cut-away aviation images. And the first of those was this beautiful 1948 two-parter from LIFE magazine of the new PanAm B-377 Stratocruiser. The Stratocruiser was first flown in 1947 and was a derivative of the B-29 (troop transport) Superfortress via the C-97 Stratofreighter. Aside from the general opulence, the dark-blue background of this image is just lovely.
