Flight Artworks RAF Memorial Flight depictions unveiled
Three more recent commissions of mine have now been published in full colour and are available as prints.
Three more recent commissions of mine have now been published in full colour and are available as prints.
On a moonlit night in July 1944, an RAF Westland Lysander comes in low over a field of lavender to land on a makeshift grass airstrip…
My latest picture features a dusty, desert-coloured Spitfire IXc – and a yellow herring.
The new paint scheme for the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire TE311 features a Polish boxing bulldog nose art: one of several similar emblems.
The story was not one I knew about when I started making the picture, which is the opposite of how things normally go.
My depiction of P-51 ace Bud Anderson’s high altitude roller coaster dogfight victory.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Lancaster, PA474, will have not one but two new paint schemes following its winter service.
Colchester, 7 September 2016 It was a day of huge engagements involving hundreds of aircraft, but time and again it broke down into deadly individual aerial combat encounters. During the Battle of Britain, RAF Fighter… Spitfire and Heinkel in Battle of Britain running fight
Two Short Stirlings ran into flak mine laying off Brittany in 1944: this one came back.
When was the last time an RAF aircraft was shot down by an enemy in an air-to-air engagement?
I usually learn something while making a picture, to a greater or lesser extent. Greater, in the case of my most recently finished RAF Halifax depiction.
My latest Flight Artworks picture deals with the fraught subject for Battle of Britain pilots of being shot down in the English Channel.
New picture portrays the astonishing moment an RAF pilot flew his Hawker Hunter jet through the central span of Tower Bridge in London.
If things have seemed serenely quiet lately, rest assured I have been paddling furiously below the waterline.
“I had been recovering to Binbrook and coasting in over Spurn Point … when there was a bright flash and a loud bang.”
I am told I am deluding myself when I imagine there was a golden age during which I just made pictures and somehow all the household stuff and admin either did not exist or somehow took care of itself.
We all know that famous Dambusters scene, right? 617 Squadron practising … on a lake in flat countryside in Essex.
The new RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Guide plops on to my doormat containing one of my pictures: silver Spitfire PS852.
If you have never flown in a tail dragger, let alone an open cockpit one, try a Tiger Moth. You will love it.
Colchester, 21 September 2015 You will know already that you can buy aviation prints through the Flight Artworks website at www.flightartworks.com but I also welcome enquiries from publishers who are interested in using my work.… Licensing Flight Artworks aviation pictures