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Airplane art
Drawting highlited with Tippex (or Snopaque)
I drew this after my first jumps at Shobdon, Herefordshire, England, in 1979. See Parachuting in Miscellaneous photos.
F-80 in Korea
Hawker Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain, summer 1940
I drew the Hurricanes in 1990, when I worked in Langley, near Slough in Berkshire, England. Hurricanes (and later Typhoons and Tempests) were built at the Hawker factory in Langley. I saw no trace of it in my time there.
Tu-16 of the cold war
Armstrong Whitworth Seahawk navy fighter of the 1950s
For my 1/48th scale model Seahawk (finished in 2019) see Dieselpunk days in Other plastic model aircraft.
Futuristic passenger space shuttle
OK, not airplanes, but near enough…
Stingray pursued by a mechanical fish
Stingray (and the mechanical fishes) were in a puppet-based 1960s sci-fi series on UK television by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Although technically a submarine, Stingray has the appearance and layout of a light aircraft.
Imperial wizard
I made the mistake of showing the propeller blades as they often appear in photographs. However, the eyes do not see the blades at the normal speed of rotation of a propeller.
The Northrop YF-17 did not go into production, but it was developed into the F/A-18 Hornet.
Internal links
A painted history of hang glider design
Charcoal drawings, Holloway College, about 1937 (by my mother)
