“We Saddled Our Fates to a Wild Mustang”
Four North American Mustang aircraft of No.268 Squadron Royal Air Force, representative of those it used in WWII, flying over the Normandy region of France.
No, not *that* G-for-George
Recently I noticed some confusion about the code letters applied to the fuselages of RAF aircraft during WWII, such as “G for George”.
Luftwaffe ace Helmut Wick shot down over Poole Bay
I learnt two things making this image: a deadly encounter between German and British fighter aircraft in late 1940; and the unusual cockpit canopy jettison mechanism on the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Heroic struggles against overwhelming odds
The Battle of Britain would have been my focus for the next few months, but events have rather overtaken us all.
With two engines out, this B-17’s crew were lucky to make it back
The B-17s were attacked by hundreds of German fighter aircraft in the most ferocious, sustained onslaught since the notoriously disastrous second Schweinfurt raid.
Courage of the paratroopers who jumped into D-Day
Have you ever jumped out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft? At night. Under fire.
Latest Flight Artworks images have a D-Day theme
My most recent D-Day related image experiments with depicting the visible shockwave from a bomb dropped by a Hawker Typhoon in Normandy in 1944.
Two for the Hawker Hurricane fans
Two of my latest pictures feature RAF Hawker Hurricane fighters in action during the Battle of Britain.
Topsy turvy new Flight Artworks picture published
It is always a bit of a strange feeling when pictures that you finished some months previously under embargo are finally published.
New challenge: two-seat Spitfires and a Hispano Buchon
Depicting three old aircraft that are gleamingly cared for presented a new Flight Artworks challenge.
Beaufighter strike on “butterfly bombs” raid
Insights into radar-driven airborne interception in WWII and the use of cluster bombs against a British port.
Mid-air collision between Lancaster bombers
The whirling, 13ft diameter propellers on a Lancaster bomber in flight make an awesome power saw if applied to another Lanc . . .
New Supermarine Swift WK275 artwork
It’s a slow business, creating a Swift picture.
Flight Artworks pictures published in RAF Memorial Flight Yearbook
Colchester, 2 Jun 2015 As prefigured in a previous post, the Battle of Britain Day ‘big picture’ I was working on in February has duly appeared across two full pages in the Official Royal Air Force Memorial…
First Flight Artworks book published
High Wycombe, 12 May 2015 I am delighted to present my first book drawn from my growing collection of Flight Artworks: 32 pages, available now in printed and e-book versions. It contains captions, commentary and…
Battle of Britain Spitfire for magazine
High Wycombe, 10 May 2015 Apart from all that spring stuff the month of May brought with it issue 16 of History Revealed magazine – whose cover features one of my Flight Artworks aircraft. The Spitfire was…
Turning point: Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940
High Wycombe, 16 Feb 2015 My latest picture portrays some 128 separate aircraft on what we now know was a decisive day: 15 September 1940. The picture, which I have been working on for much of…
Remembering Berchtesgaden Lancaster “F for Freddy”
High Wycombe, 30 Jan 2015 There is an interesting story around all the pictures I get asked to make, but it is usually about the original circumstances that are being portrayed. In the case of this…
A close-up look at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
High Wycombe, 2 Dec 2014 I was standing next to a World War Two Spitfire while one of the few modern pilots lucky enough to have flown it recounted how the engine had emptied of oil…
Spitfires escorting Lancasters? In daylight?
High Wycombe, 6 Nov 2014 Ever jump to conclusions? What do you make of the picture above: Spitfires escorting Lancasters? (available via this link). A typical first response from people who see it is “Cool picture…