Love Rocket Rescue
Love Rocket Rescue is a photograph we took in our Manchester Ancoats studio. The two model airplanes with feathers stuck onto them are found objects we have owned for many years having found them in an emptied-out studio on the same floor as our own.
If at first glance they appear to be military planes its because that’s what they are. Specifically they are models of the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender, an American tanker and cargo aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force from 1981 to 2024. The KC-10 played a key role in the mobilization of US military assets, taking part in overseas operations in Europe and Asia. These aircraft performed airlift and aerial refueling during the 1986 bombing of Libya, the 1990–91 Gulf War, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the War in Afghanistan, and Iraq War.’
In the image the two flying tankers have been propped up against one another. Maybe they are embracing, or dancing, or perhaps fighting, rutting like stags? No longer providing support for wars in other lands they are left to arrange themselves according to their own needs and concerns.
Love Rocket Rescue is a photograph we took in our Manchester Ancoats studio. The two model airplanes with feathers stuck onto them are found objects we have owned for many years having found them in an emptied-out studio on the same floor as our own.
If at first glance they appear to be military planes its because that’s what they are. Specifically they are models of the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender, an American tanker and cargo aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force from 1981 to 2024. The KC-10 played a key role in the mobilization of US military assets, taking part in overseas operations in Europe and Asia. These aircraft performed airlift and aerial refueling during the 1986 bombing of Libya, the 1990–91 Gulf War, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the War in Afghanistan, and Iraq War.’
In the image the two flying tankers have been propped up against one another. Maybe they are embracing, or dancing, or perhaps fighting, rutting like stags? No longer providing support for wars in other lands they are left to arrange themselves according to their own needs and concerns.
Love Rocket Rescue is a photograph we took in our Manchester Ancoats studio. The two model airplanes with feathers stuck onto them are found objects we have owned for many years having found them in an emptied-out studio on the same floor as our own.
If at first glance they appear to be military planes its because that’s what they are. Specifically they are models of the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender, an American tanker and cargo aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force from 1981 to 2024. The KC-10 played a key role in the mobilization of US military assets, taking part in overseas operations in Europe and Asia. These aircraft performed airlift and aerial refueling during the 1986 bombing of Libya, the 1990–91 Gulf War, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the War in Afghanistan, and Iraq War.’
In the image the two flying tankers have been propped up against one another. Maybe they are embracing, or dancing, or perhaps fighting, rutting like stags? No longer providing support for wars in other lands they are left to arrange themselves according to their own needs and concerns.