Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Bulbous

Bell 47 (August 1980)

The Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge offers us every weekend a word, we can use in Poems, Pictures, every interpretation is welcome.
The word for this weekend is „Bulbous“ – a word, I have never heard as I am no native English speaker. So I had to check the meaning of bulbous first. This is what they say:

bulbous
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Something that is bulbous is round and fat in a rather ugly way.
…his bulbous purple nose.
Synonyms: bulging, rounded, swelling, swollen

So, not a really nice word at first glance. Nevertheless, I will try to find a picture for this word.


And I found a very old slide, taken in 1980 with my Canon AE-1 and a 50 mm FD lens. And also added a very poor Extender which gives me a 100 mm lens.

Since I was a kid, planes and helicopters are a fascinating subject to me. Unfortunately, we do not have an airport nearby, but a small civil airfield (By the way: The highest-altitude aerodrome in Baden-Württemberg and the second highest in Germany). And so I often took my bicycle, climbed up the hills from 730 m ASL to 891 m ASL to see what else is happening there.

And there they were: Two Bell 47 helicopters with their characteristic bulbous canopy made of plexiglass, which provides 180-degree visibility for the pilot and passengers. Designed by Arthur M. Young and certified in 1946, it was the first helicopter to be certified for civilian use.

Bell 47 (August 1980)