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January 23rd, 2008 |
I wrote an essay in this box about this picture, but GS timed me out and lost everything, so I'm just gonna put some basic info here.
Hypoxia starts at 10,000 feet. An oxygen mask allows flights far higher.
It's possible for a glider, soaring bird, or a dragon to glide to upwards of 40,000+ feet without manual propulsion. This is done via wave lift. [url]
A pitot tube is a metal device that sticks out into the airflow of an aircraft and reads the airspeed.
CG is "Center of Gravity" and in aircraft/birds this is typically located just behind the wing root, and adding weight to the aircraft/creature needs to keep this balanced so flight isn't unstable.
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Extra information:
The chutes (which should be on the back, not the thighs, oops) would auto-deploy if the dragon's vital signs became really poor. They would also deploy if a severe descent rate was detected very close to the ground.
The HUD would display a GPS map inset with a weather radar overlay. The hud itself would contain altitude (MSL/ASL) and indicated airspeed readouts, navigation/communication frequencies, vertical speed, ground proximitiy (with audio/visual callouts), TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System), navigation/instrument failure indication, and basic health vital signs.
Worn on each wrist is a backup non-digital "steam" guage in case the main HUD display breaks. One displays altitude and the other displays airspeed and vertical speed.
A chest plate is worn to cleanly direct the airflow around the flight computer and oxygen hookups located around CG. |
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Making things believable is always an awesome plus. I like how you took the care and thought to make sure things would actually work. You heard my complaint about that earlier, though: How would he open his mouth to contact ATC and ask for landing clearance?
It's a very well rendered picture. I like it. The anatomy on the dragon looks good, the equipment is easy to read, you've even got value on the ground and a skin pattern on the dragon. All wonderful things! Yay!
What could help the picture the most is the background. He's supposed to be 20k+ feet in the air, right? You showed me a picture of that, and while you could probably list the issues yourself, I'll state them as I see them.
1) The clouds are too tall, or not spread out enough. They look pretty big, and therefore pretty close, when they're supposed to be probably 15,000 feet down, plus a considerable distance out.
2) The curvature of the earth isn't showing well enough. There's a bit of it in there, but not enough.
3) Atmospheric perspective, not always necessary, is pretty much necessary in this case. You'd see the top of the atmosphere, plus everything way out where the earth curved would get totally lost in dust and air particles and turn into a haze.
At least, that's what I gather based on the picture you showed me. That picture really screamed height. And I want to get that feeling out of this picture, but I don't.
Glad to see you updating again! I look forward to more. |
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