"slow Down, You Move Too Fast"
May, 1971
Even on clear days at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, exhaust smog smudges the ends of the runways as they appear from the control tower, so that planes seem to wiggle down onto the concrete like bottom-settling fish. The 747s are at their most exotic in this oily haze: Landing gear like great stainless-steel ventral fins dangle from the bellies of the big planes, make contact, and then, bending back, seem to draw the tonnage above them down onto themselves. It's a display of delicate, rushing pondero...
