I took the photo in 2003 or early 2004. It appeared in the UK hang gliding magazine in May 2004. (I tried to arrange a photo of her strapped in to my hang glider, but I failed.)LovesBlackWomen wrote:I'm fascinated with the airplane cockpit.
The reason for it appearing in that magazine was that a chief instructor had a short article bemoaning the state of the world (it was a good old rant) and it included a comment about these new artificial women (that were in the news at the time) and something about their owners being 'sad'. I am fairly sure he did not know about Rebecca. (I had met him about 15 years before, so I doubt he recalled me either.)
So I sent in a reply from Rebecca, agreeing with all his points except the one about Realdolls. She concluded that, without her, I would be even sadder.
Anyway, you know how some people have no sense of humour, well, at least one other contributor wrote in objecting to any mention of dolls in that magazine and pointing out that he did not think she was really flying the airplane!
(Shakes head in bewilderment.)
I took the photo in my 'office/studio', incidentally. It is a genuine photo, well, sort of, and is completely unedited other than making the colours a bit lighter and adding my copyright text.
Notice that there are no control wheels. Just empty sockets. It is an actual size poster of a PA-28 (I think) instrument panel. In her right hand is a gadget from an old camera. She is sitting in my swivel office chair (you cannot swivel a PA-28 seat like that) and her ear defenders have an old shoelace strung on them. The desert scenery out the windscreen is an old plywood board I used to do some paintings on. Her shirt is too big because it is one of my old shirts. The epaulettes are strips of sticky-back Velcro still on their backing paper.
Only the air chart is real.
The name MacGyver comes to mind...