B-17 Flying Fortress nose art from WWII
Friday, 29 February 2008
SEXY AIR PIN UP GIRLS ( 6 ) PENELOPE PITSTOP
HEL-LEP! HEL-LEP
Childhood memeories are certain she flew a plane in Dastardly & Muttley, but I cannot locate any pictures of it.
Anyone out there got one?
She's airborne here...
Here are a couple of her Perils...
Finally, here's Penelope in that sexy car of hers...
Childhood memeories are certain she flew a plane in Dastardly & Muttley, but I cannot locate any pictures of it.
Anyone out there got one?
She's airborne here...
Here are a couple of her Perils...
Finally, here's Penelope in that sexy car of hers...
SPITFIRE ( 6 ) Bouncing Czech
Painting of TE566 Spitfire in Czech colours by Todd Ferris.
20,351 were built between 1938–1948
If you were to write a "Czech" for one in 1939 it would have cost you £12,604
Found after 60 years
A Ju- 52 German transport plane shot down during WWII, raised from the sea near the Aegean island of Leros.
The Greek Air Force organised the salvage operation and, surprisingly, the aircraft was relatively good condition given the fact that it remained at the bottom of the sea for a total of 60 years. It will be cleaned up and become one of the exhibits in the island's war museum.
The pilot's skeleton was found inside the aircraft and the German Embassy in Athens was notified.
Here's what it looked like before...
AIRCRAFT MOVIE POSTERS ( 2 ) Spitfire!
Tally Ho!
A brief spot of intel on these posters.
They're all actually the same motion picture, "First of the Few" a cheery British flag waver from the dark days of 1942.
"Spitfire" was it's title in the USA & Sweden, Finland, etc (not Germany,however...).
Leslie Howard, a top heroic star at the time had his best ever role playing RJ Mitchell, the inventor of the world's greatest fighter plane, the Spitfire.
Tragically, it would be Leslie's last film as he was killed a year later when the Germans shot down his unarmed transport plane.
A brief spot of intel on these posters.
They're all actually the same motion picture, "First of the Few" a cheery British flag waver from the dark days of 1942.
"Spitfire" was it's title in the USA & Sweden, Finland, etc (not Germany,however...).
Leslie Howard, a top heroic star at the time had his best ever role playing RJ Mitchell, the inventor of the world's greatest fighter plane, the Spitfire.
Tragically, it would be Leslie's last film as he was killed a year later when the Germans shot down his unarmed transport plane.
Thursday, 28 February 2008
AIRCRAFT MOVIE POSTERS ( NUMBER 1 )
With thanks to Mr Sheikspear
( http://www.sheikspear.blogspot.com )
and Miss Rachel
( http://sharppencils.blogspot.com )
Monday, 25 February 2008
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Let's get the Chaff outa here! ( Number 1 )
Hercules transport launches Chaff anti missile flares to confuse incoming heat seeking missile attack.
HEROES OF AVIATION ( 2 ) Sir Douglas Bader, RAF
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader,
Bader lost his legs in a pre-war flying accident, but re-joined the RAF for WW2 and became a heroic fighter ace. The Germans, so impressed by his courage when shot down and evading capture for a while, even allowed save passage for a RAF plane to parachute him some replacement tin legs.
A disabled charity was set up by his family and friends on his death in 1982, to help and inspire amputees.
http://www.douglasbaderfoundation.co.uk/content/DBF/DBF_Information/AboutDB.html
Bader's nose art; Kicking Hitler's arse
Bader's 222 Squadron pilots
