The last chronological post* of the blog features a very special item, and some of the fascinating complex background to it – the fictional Carreidas 160 supersonic bizjet. We start with an image of the Carreidas 160 in flight, but all is not what it seems, it’s an excellent creation from here. It was first…
Tag: Post-War
Sharp Dressed Regiment
Join the RAF Regiment and go into battle in a sharp dressed blue battledress and camouflage helmet… A great RAF recruiting poster found by Simon Harley on Twitter here. The artwork is by Frank Wootton, a doyen of British aviation art, and the aircraft is an RAF Transport Command Bristol Type 175 Britannia. James Kightly,…
Santa Baby, Santa Bou
Christmas Eve. Lots of Santa Claus-with-aircraft-posts, but this story from the Aviation Geek club here (do click, have a read, come back) is a fascinating story. In the Vietnam War, an American Caribou transport was painted as a Santa reindeer for Christmas: ‘No group of children ever carried off the fantasy so well. A young…
Soviet Night
Today’s poster is Aeroflot, the Soviet Russian airline’s Christmas promotion. A great, simple design, though the Tupolev Tu 154‘s drawing needs a little work. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. From Vintage Travel Posters here.
Hindermost
Today’s something different again. Here’s the postwar painting entitled ‘Bomber Crash’ by Australian Frank Hinder, who was working with the Camouflage Wing of the Royal Australian Engineers during World War Two. At first it seems to be a semi-abstract fire image, the details become evident as the picture is read. Held in the Australian War…
Caravelle Cont.
I recently posted a number of Sud Aviation Caravelle images focused on the unusual passenger cabin’s curved triangular windows. But there’s plenty more great artworks of Caravelles, clearly one of the most elegant airliners with a loyal following even today. Coming and going with Air Algerie and Alitalia… And two takes with Finnair. The Stewardess…
Tomorrow Never Comes
Following yesterday’s post featuring both airliners that didn’t make it, or never came to reality (as well as some that did) today here’s a proposed airliner that seems a lot more credible a design, though it was also never to become real – yesterday or tomorrow. An advertisement for Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft Ltd, a company that…
Bristol Fashions
Leading today with a simple, but effective poster from the Bristol Aeroplane Company (from here) at a 1950s SBAC Farnborough airshow. I presume the flag is Bristol’s own house standard, and note the ‘Bristol’ logotype we discussed earlier here. From the top, the aircraft depicted are the Bristol Type 167 Brabazon, Type 175 Britannia, Type…
Indy’s Matte Boat
Of course everyone’s favourite archaeologist, Indiana Jones, travels in a flying boat. In this case in the first film, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. But how? Here’s a web page covering a ‘then and now’ of the Short Solent Mk.III that stood in for the extinct Pan Am Boeing 314. It’s the survivor at the…
Caravelle
Today we have an advertising theme featuring the unusual windows of the Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle medium range airliner. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Posters, found online, photograph from here.
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 