Today’s Poster. Just a quick post today, here the perennial airline theme ‘sitting in the sky’ here with the Lufthansa stork symbol. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Source unknown.
It’s a Chaps’ Air Force
Today it’s a brochure cover, offering further education in the Royal Australian Air Force. Having aircraft in the background might make it seem more attractive (while you’re on the phone thumbing your papers and with a classy wire in tray) but I think the earning for the wide open spaces implicit in the painting might…
Mind the Dame
Today’s Poster is to promote the cars of now-forgotten prestige French car maker Cottin & Desgouttes. If in doubt, add a semi-nude female – here with wings, but the aviation connection isn’t her, but the aircraft in the background, and that Cottin & Desgouttes were used as an engine builder (Gnome et Rhône radials) in the…
Feminin Fly In
Today’s Poster. Another one for Women’s History Month, this was also picked up by the Musee de l’Air on their Twitter feed. A Women’s Aviation Meet, believed to be 1953, in August at Dinard. They add that the poster’s artist, Jacques Jacquelin used the magazine 1952 Paris Match No.173 for inspiration, notably the release of…
Crash Pastoral
Today’s Poster has a remarkably placid feel, despite depicting the aftermath of a floatplane ditching. Entitled ‘Warning! Consider the possible consequences if you are careless in your work’, it is a 1917 painting by L.N. Britton, reproduced as a 104 x 72 cm poster and shows a pair of US Navy floatplanes, one of the…
Starry Biplane
This riff on a very conventional looking Christian oil painting by N. C. Wyeth (1882 – 1945), entitled ‘The Sign in the Heavens which the Judean Shepherds Watching Their Flocks See this Year’ differs only from the conventional Christian iconography in having a biplane as the subject of the shepherds’ gaze. Dating from 1918, it…
PlaneSkiMan
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…
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…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 