The beauty of science – Caltech wind tunnel – 1930-ish

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  1. April 17, 2013

    It’s a cool photo, except it sort of looks like a bad backdrop for an Academy Awards show! haha!

    • April 17, 2013

      If only the backdrop for the Academy Awards could have been so simple this year. What was with that mess of projectors! BTW this year’s producers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are signed on for another stint…

  2. George Kaplan
    April 17, 2013

    “The Beauty Of Science”, great title for a stunning image… However, you don’t want to know what happened mere moments after that photo was taken… Ew, Messy!
    – Crass George

    • April 17, 2013

      I think they still have a variation of a wind tunnel in Vegas — where you can *fly* wearing a bat suit and a helmet.

  3. George Kaplan
    April 17, 2013

    In the words of Jeff Spicoli, “That is *Awesome*!”
    A “bat suit”? Why do I have visions of Adam West?

  4. April 18, 2013

    V
    I too have been in a wind tunnel. A mind ‘blowing’ experience.
    Yours ever
    The Perfumed Dandy

    • April 18, 2013

      You are an intrepid soul! Just thinking about it gives me vertigo, but then the only ride I can stomach at Disney Land is Mr. Toad’s.

      • April 18, 2013

        Dearest V
        But then you see you are braver than The Dandy, for I have never yet found the stomach for Disneyland!!
        Yours ever
        The Perfumed Dandy

      • April 18, 2013

        I may be banished from the kingdom, but, it kind of reminds me of a brash, highly commercialized, carnival — and when I get down to it, carnivals creep me out. Shhhhh.

      • April 18, 2013

        V
        I must confess I find the whole thing rather terrifying.
        Perhaps it was watching Westworld all those years ago… what if it’s Yul Brynner under the Mickey mask?
        Yours ever
        The Perfumed Dandy

  5. George Kaplan
    April 18, 2013

    Oh, Perfumed Dandy, that is a pun so deliciously bad I wish I had used it! Mind you, yesterday my thatch looked like I’d just been *in* a wind tunnel. 🙂

  6. George Kaplan
    April 18, 2013

    Aw, a “wingsuit”? I preferred your “Bat Suit” 😉 I demand they change it to the Vickie version, ’cause I’m “quirky”!

  7. April 12, 2015

    What’s with the short pants, are they golfing in there?

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