When forced to support an aircraft maker, your car manufacturer has every justification in advertising their car in association – including using the pilot of both, here Raymond Delmotte. The Caudron C.461 is seen here with the Renault cabriolet, and both shows the fashions of extreme streamlining are as much fashion as they are pure…
Tag: Record
Best of British
Holding records was a matter of pride in the inter war period, while today the human element and the understanding of how hard that extra reach is to do has gone. To hold four records at once was a greater achievement, even with the resources of one of the world’s leading industrial nations deployed. Here…
Doncaster – 1909
Today’s Poster. there’s often a charming naievete in pre Great War aviation images. On the one hand there was often a confusion about how aircraft worked, and what was possible in the air, while on the other hand the artists hadn’t subscribed to the condification of how aviation was represented; as here, drawing the propeller…
King’s Cup – Three Tones
A nice poster, with only three ink tones, I suspect, blue, black and orange. The block colour on the aircraft also works well, I think, and the choice to leave the propeller on the edge and invisible also facilitates the image’s success. While the aircraft depicted in the poster has a de Havilland tail, the…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 