Today’s Posters surprised me! Doing a project like this can start one seeing the subject pop up in all kinds of places, in a ‘seeing patterns’ kind of way, but this just leapt off the screen at me. It’s perhaps worrying that I’m so current in the topic that can point to the origin of…
Month: April 2019
Zurich Meet
Today’s Poster. Everybody’s flying the same kind of aircraft? While a simple looking design, note the different colour mixes on the prop blade roots on each of the nearest three aircraft. Hope it was a good meet! From the excellent 1925 to 1935 blog of images here. Image details: 1937 – J.C. Müller, Zürich 90…
Table Toppings
From friend Andrew Matthews, spotted in Dunedin airport, New Zealand some time ago. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
Leyendecker Double Take
Two versions of the same idea by Joseph Leyendecker. A follow up from his earlier Great War pair, here’s another double by American commercial artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874–1951). In this ‘Aviator with two boys’ it’s two different images and two different art media takes on a single idea. Note the differences in the dog…
ANA’s Infinite Sky
One from the excellent poster blog ‘Quad Royal’, by Susannah Walker which only occasionally features aviation posters, but when it does, they’re very worthwhile. Listed as a 1955 poster for Australian National Airways (ANA) by Ronald Clayton Skate, it was est. $800-1,200 in a 2011 auction. On the blog, the Susannah wrote: “… they represent…
ANZAC Hornet & Friends
Military commemorative schemes have become relatively common, usually well done and telling a worthwhile story. Today’s is an ANZAC special. The Royal Australian Air Force Hornet above was seen at the Omaka Classic Fighters airshow near Blenheim, New Zealand this Easter weekend just gone. Provided by the Australian Defence Force for the show, it was…
RENO 80
A more modern poster than usual today, here from the Reno National Championship Air Races, known as ‘the fastest motorsport’ above earth. Featuring here a set of World War Two era North American P-51 Mustangs reconfigured as racers, both in the eighties and now, stalwarts of that race scene. The vibrant red and yellow colour…
Which Concorde?
The final shape for the Concorde’s wing was an ogee delta, and when viewed closely is a complex arrangement, including a downturned leading edge lip, as well as the reflexed leading edge line seen in plan view. But it wasn’t the only option, as seen here, in this row of model shapes considered by the…
Around the Cockade
An airshow poster for today. It’s a lovely one, from the early Thirties in France, but of particular interest in the blog for the use of the original style cockade or badge symbolizing the aeronautical cockade or roundel. Originally these were used for identification of group in revolution and war in Europe in the previous…
Stuka! One – Shiny
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A full size model (FSM) replica of the iconic German Blitzkrieg too the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber. Here in the sculpture garden of Burghley House, in the UK. As reported recently in Militaria & History, it ‘is called Down Two Earth and is an 11m…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 