Today’s Poster. Two copies of a Geoffrey Watson painting for the Shell fuel company. First image, the main Shell poster seems to only be in one online shop site the Omnibus Gallery, not included in any of the Shell anthologies I have. Second from the W E Johns and Biggles website here. James Kightly, Vintage…
Month: August 2019
Not Defiant
Today’s Poster is for the very-B movie Ronald Reagan Hollywood British bandwagon, from the film ‘International Squadron’. The poster features a squadron of British fighters – Boulton Paul Defiants, and streight lifted from the famous (I think) ‘Life’ magazine shots of 264 Squadron when they were at Kirton in Lindsay, as seen below. Some of…
Bordfunker II
Today’s Poster follows yesterday’s. It’s a German radio company (Siemens) advertisement, so although similar looking to yesterday’s for the job of a radio operator, is in fact for a product rather than a role. It reads: “Klare verstandigung durch Siemens-bordtelefonei” or ‘clear understanding with Siemens headsets’ The words in the signal key are lärm (noise)…
Bordfunker I
Today’s poster will be a companion to tomorrow’s. This one is a very unusual recruitment example for the German World War Two Luftwaffe, being for radio operators (Bordfunker). Almost all military aircrew recruitment was for pilots, those not successful in that training being redirected into the other required roles (or recruited from ground crew). Here…
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Today’s Poster. A placeholder due to illness. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
Fearsome Fiery FEE
An exciting magazine cover today. I picked it because it’s rare to see any major feature of a Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b (the ‘Fee’) but it’s fun for other reasons too. The artwork is by Vic Prezio for Air War Stories No. 3, published by Dell, from March – May 1965. In 1965 there were…
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Today’s Poster. A placeholder due to illness. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
Card Game Biplane
Lots of games and toys have representative ‘aeroplanes’ within them. Here’s one for the App Solitare by Mobility Ware from my phone. This is a biplane (so extra points) and while it ‘cheats’ by changing the dimensions of some cards to fill some bits of the structure, I think it captures the spirit of both…
Unrepeatable Emett Offer
Today a 1952 cartoon from Rowland Emett. Little known nowadays, Frederick Rowland Emett OBE was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture, some of which survives in use today. He was a British institution, his high point being the ‘Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway’, a real railway built for the 1951…
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Today’s Poster. A placeholder due to illness. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 