French aviation pioneer Eugène Lefebvre piloting a Wright Flyer in the first international air race, the Grande Semaine d’Aviation, at Reims in 1909
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC, RAF (15 June 1892 – 6 February 1975) was a New Zealand soldier, First World War flying ace and Second World War Royal Air Force commander. He was in operational command during two of the most significant air battles in the European theatre in the Second World War, helping to win the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Malta. In Germany, he was known as “the Defender of London”.
Just a sketch I have lying around. I am currently deciding if I should use watercolour or acryllic paint to color it.
Portrait of a pilot instructor Fyodor Ivanovich Tikhonov (1921-1945).
So that 4-Disc history of Aviation came with a little booklet with some small paragraphs about planes and people. I ended up sketching out Billy Mitchell (if you don’t know who he is, just look him up). Once I showed my brother, he asked if I could sketch Charles Lindbergh. The pre-sketch of Lindy was so terrible, I wish that I would have taken a photo of it.
Skydreamers:History of Flight (the fantasies and realities of flight and space exploration)
The famous aviator Charles Lindbergh with his airplane Spirit of St. Louis in the background, shortly after the completion of its first nonstop flight across the Atlantic in May 1927. Now the plane in Washington, Smithsonian Museum of Space
Skydreamers:History of Flight (the fantasies and realities of flight and space exploration)
Portrait of Amelia Earhart inside the cockpit of hee aircraft in early 1937. In 1932, Earhart became the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean. In July 1937, she disappeared while attempting to fly around the world. Her disappearance is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in flight history.
