Today’s Poster. This mountain circuit International Flying Meet, was based in Zurich (love the Umlaut in the ‘u’). I can’t find any online references to the event beyond the poster – which is very strange. In 1922 aircraft were not ‘sleek’ or simple to a modern aesthetic at all, but this hasn’t slowed Swiss artist…
Month: March 2019
Rosie’s Factory
In Women’s History Month, two iconic World War Two posters, one from each side of the Atlantic. First is ‘Women of Britain, come into the factories’, a 1941 poster designed by Philip Zec, the Daily Mirror’s political cartoonist in the UK. Dr Brett Holman stared a discussion among several of us on his Airminded…
Gentleman’s Concorde
Commemorating 50 years since the first flight of Concorde again (first on Vintage Aero Writer here) let’s take a look at a now iconic stamp design by David Gentleman, a remarkable artist in Britain, in any measure, and in many arts. Today the pre-decimal ‘1/6’ value in the corner looks like it belongs to a…
Heroines
Today is International Women’s Day, and so we are going to use photographer and pilot Anne Noggle’s work for a pair or amazing stories. And a women pilots’ quilt. (There will be more during Women’s History Month through March.) Photographer and fellow wartime pilot Anne Noggle’s portrait of Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova. Notice the ‘broach’. There’s quite…
Pan Am’s Past
Here’s a commemorative marker, a sticker, I think*, for a half-century of Pan Am’s flying a transatlantic service starting in 1939 – quickly disrupted by the Second World War. The service was started with Boeing 314 flying boats, as illustrated here – a type that went onto a notable number or remarkable flights and records.But…
Bas Farman
One of the often neglected aspects of aviation art I’m going to focus on are the three dimensional works, including here a bas relief sculpture by Paul Landowski, from the page of the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace shared today. Landowski may not be familiar by name, but just about everyone reading this blog…
Koala to India
Just a fun one today, an Air India first day cover style commemoration of the first Boeing 707 flight between India and Australia in 1962. The chap is Air India’s ‘character’ used in the era, and obviously he’s decided to act like a local and copy the koala! First day covers are – yet another…
What’s in the Box?
Coming up soon on the Aviation Illustration Blog… Nice. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
The Red-Blue Max
A very strange story today, around the well-known book ‘The Blue Max’ which was made into an even better-known film* of the same name. The book was written by Jack D Hunter, a fantastic name for an action-novel writer, but actually his real name as well. The cover for the first edition of the book…
February Roundup
Here’s the images for February. Quite a mix, with an ice sculpture, a travel bag, a roundabout in the three-dimensional elements, one ‘pastiche’ a theft and a fabric missing man. Well worth a look back through! James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 