Today’s Poster. There are many ways of advertising airline flights, and safety, ease and secure comparisons are popular. Here’s one from Iberia, the ‘Lineas Aereas Españolas’, and the Spanish text reads “Vuele confiado come si pasara el ocean sobre un solid puente – garantia de seguridad”. A rough translation would be ‘Fly with confidence, crossing…

Thanks to Peter Hobbins, today we have this very cheaply produced Australian children’s book from Gunn & Taylor Pty. Ltd. of Melbourne. A fine piece of random, otherwise forgotten ephemera. It’s not great artwork on the cover by any means, but the semi fictional aircraft depicted are at least based on real prototypes – several…

Today’s poster is from a fascinating page, with a diverse range of artwork here [Edit: page has disappeared, here’s a cached version] that look into the way posters have been used to argue for preparedness for war or disaster in Scandinavia and beyond. This is a Swedish artwork by Anders Beckman, a highly regarded and…

I didn’t expect we’d get a magic carpet in this year’s aviation story, but when this came up, it was too good to miss! Obviously a fantasy, but really no more so than some credible seeming flights of fancy seen elsewhere in this selection. A fantastic illustration by Winsor McCay, showing master penmanship and an…