Finch's Electra demonstrates that aluminum can be highly polished, as shown in the painting.
Ok, I'll bite. How, specifically, does it do that? It's a painting, an artists representation It can only demonstrate the artist's painting ability, specifically in this regard his ability to paint what may be considered a realistic representation of reflective surfaces, among other obvious aspects (airplanes, water etc).
The painting corresponds to what is observable in pictures of Finch's Electra. I grant this is not a perfect "demonstration."
Ric asked what differences people could see between the painting and the AE's Electra.
My answer is "shiny aluminum skin."
Did I mention that it's a painting? Didn't you take aesthetics in college?
Yes, I know it's a painting. Yes, I took courses involving aesthetics. Both of these truths are irrelevant to the question you asked: "After all the back and forth about there being reflections in the fotos showing the purported 2-2-v-1 or whatever the damn thing id being called, noe Electras can't have shiny aluminum skin?"
I did not say, "no Electra's can have shiny aluminum skin." (I am assuming this is what you meant to type.)
I concede that Linda Finch's aircraft has a shiny aluminum skin.
The painter seems to have used her aircraft as a stand-in for AE's.
It is purportedly a painting of AE's Electra in the last seconds of flight before splashing into the ocean.
He got the detail wrong about the kind of props on AE's aircraft, probably because he copied what is on Finch's aircraft.
He got the detail wrong about the shiny skin, probably because he was using Finch's aircraft as a model.
I don't feel that I've had to reach deep into my training as an English major, a master's of philosophy, or as a Ph.D. to spot this difference between the painting and AE's aircraft. I seem to remember pairs of cartoons in the Sunday comics that challenged the reader to list differences between one panel and the next.