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Plex
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 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: 'flying buttress' |
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| MG Man wrote: | | plex306 wrote: | i take it u do not like it..  |
er........ok............that actually was a big standing ovation for the design
u need to to go google 'flying buttress'  |
I look it out and this is what i found...
a flying buttress, or arc-boutant, is usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building. The employment of the flying buttress means that the load bearing walls can contain cut-outs, such as for large windows, that would otherwise seriously weaken the vault walls.
Taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_buttress |
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Rory Phoulorie
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| Quote: | | ...Jaguar's timing was not good: the car was launched in the wake of the first fuel crisis and the market for a 5.3-litre V12 grand tourer was very small. The styling was also the subject of much criticism, including the "flying buttresses" behind the windows. |
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MG Man
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| Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:09 am Post subject: |
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possibly the most elegant execution of a flying buttress:
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http://www.capecodbritishcarclub.org/CarPhotos/Mike_Dallaire_92JagXJS.jpg[/img]
generally, flying buttresses are used in mid-engined cars, as a styling element that continues the smooth lines of a coupe.....nowadays the flying buttress has given way to engines under glass a-la F430
these still look good tho
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Plex
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| Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I seem to be lost here now... |
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