Nose Dive on the City, Tullio Crali, 1939

Locust St. has posted the latest (penultimate) installment of 7 Means of Movement, which is about flight; more strictly, it is about aeroplane flight, neglecting balloons, airships, gliders, jet-packs and other more marginal means of flight.
The post is outstanding, though, and neglects very little where planes and piloting are concerned. As always, there’s a terrific range of related music for download, and among the illustrations, this absolutely extraordinary painting by the Italian Futurist Tullio Crali — who doesn’t have a Wikipedia page in English (there’s a brief entry in the German version), but there’s biographical detail here — which is where we discover that Crali went further than any of his aero-fixated Futurist compadres, and actually became a stunt pilot.

ADDENDUM: here’s Lightnin’ Hopkins’ DC-7 Blues, which tells of the Boeing Douglas DC-7. Lightnin’s mama begs him not to go up in that plane, lest she never see him again…