FLYING SUPERWEAPON? (Apr, 1946)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1946
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1946
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Certainly looks like a space ship to me.
FLYING SUPERWEAPON?
Would you say that this queer-looking contraption was a jet-propelled life raft, a plane fuselage flying without wings, or some other super-secret, odd invention just released for public view? Perhaps, if you turn the picture upside down and think of reflections on water as you reexamine it, you will be able to tell. It’s the conning tower of a German submarine sunk alongside its dock at Hamburg. Note the radar antenna. Lt. Arthur L. Schoeni, of the Navy Department, sent the photo in.
That is a really interesting trompe-d’oeuil photo - the reflection is nicely aligned with the actual so it looks relatively seamless.
The guy who caught this had a good eye for detail.
Alan
Comment by Alan J. Richer — February 15, 2008 @ 6:52 am
I had to read Alan’s description to see it.
Comment by Stannous — February 15, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
If this is a consular ship, WHERE is the ambassador?
Comment by jayessell — February 16, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
It looks like a stretched-out Chevrolet Impala wrapped in brown paper and launched into the air with antennas attached.
Comment by Blurgle — February 16, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
for Alan, it’s not trompe-d’oeil but trompe-l’oeil
Comment by celestin cartier — April 24, 2008 @ 2:51 am
>>If this is a consular ship, WHERE is the ambassador?
He is surenderring to Stalin tanks in Berlin!!!
This is Type XXI U-Boat conning tower http://www.uboat.net/types/xviii.htm
Comment by D. Vader — June 5, 2008 @ 4:18 am