Today’s posters follow yesterday’s poster about building the aircraft – here it’s about missing parts. Delays in manufacture were a major issue during the Second World War, and while a huge number of aircraft (among other weapons and equipment) were recycled, there were delays and issues there too. So here we have two Allied powers…
Splitting the Bomber
Today’s Poster. It’s a classic example of what’s known as an ‘exploded diagram’ where all the parts are arrayed at a small distance as though caught in a frozen moment of explosion. Ironic here, as the aircraft in question is a bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. This is from the Smithonian’s collection, entitled ‘You help…
A Rose by TAA Name
Today’s Poster is sometimes given as “…the most famous publicity ‘pic’ ever produced by TAA or any other airline in Australia”. This page on the ‘Fly the Friendly Way’ poster at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) and written by Curator Anne-Marie Van de Ven, in 2011 gives a good rundown on the…
Acklam Air Display
Today’s 1933 poster is from the inter-war National Aviation Day Displays ‘Air Circus’ of Sir Alan Cobham, which ran from 1932-35. A simple, dynamic poster with space for a changing, local overprint across the bottom. The biplanes aren’t any real type, but the artist has got them ‘swooshing’ most satisfactorily. For many in the local…
Photoshop Hunter
Today’s image has a sort of haunting water world quality, which was the first reason for its inclusion, thanks to Twitter’s @Archillect (via @Airminded) posting it. Despite a fair bit of searching, I’ve not found the origin of the image, though it relates to this blog thirtyfivemill.com, where the image has been posted here and…
Moth Alight
A 1933 cartoon from Punch by Leslie Illingworth. The text reads: ‘Man with a particular grievance. “Oh, it’s only you, is it? I thought it was one of those confounded motor-cycles kicking up a row again.”‘ I should, at this point say that if you don’t find this funny, it’s not your fault – earlier…
Beat Coach Class
Today’s Poster is from the 1930s, and from Deutsche Luft Hansa. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Poster from the Smithsonian collection here.
The Case of the Generic Airliner
Today, rather than the perennial posters, here’s a nice souvenir, via Twitter contact Rob Feeley, of a metal cigarette case with an embossed Blackpool tower on it. But what catches our interest is the airliner passing the tower on the right. Now, while Blackpool has had a significant history of pleasure flying aircraft around the…
Green-Blue Night
Today’s art is an oil painting that would pass perfectly well as a piece of fine art in a chiaroscuro style. Actually it’s a piece for a magazine published in 1924 by the one-eyed artist Stockton Mulford – a biography of him here. Despite the beautiful colour, it was printed in monochrome, as shown here….
HurriBow
Today’s Poster follows on from yesterday’s, also featuring a symbolic nearly Hawker Hurricane. This poster is even more unusual, and somewhat enigmatic. It’s printed in Britain (‘Nott’m’ – Nottingham in fact) and is clear enough in its aim, as the catalogue notes state it reads ‘On to Japan!’, written in Arabic. Going beyond the obvious…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 