From Wood and Wire...to Mach!
Closer to fine aircraft art than to cartoons, Aero Art Caricatures sells airplane artwork as prints and posters. A gift of a full size aircraft poster would let the aviation buff in your life enjoy in detail the dramatic portrait of a favorite plane. Or, for a more desk-sized image, get an aircraft print. On a more casual note, the new line of aviation art t-shirts emphasizes the bold lines and dramatic turns of various aircraft.
The caricaturing is a subtle exaggeration of dimensions to show off the character of the airplane, so some drawings will look like a photo, others more like a cartoon; some airplanes just look funny to begin with. All images are carefully researched by the artist, Ewan Tallentire, whose passions are aircraft and history, and drawn with historic detail. You are invited to challenge the artist on any error you find, though unless you were actually there at the time, you better really know your stuff.
Aviation Quotation of the Week
For previous weeks, see this page.
Sorry for the long time since last I gave you a quote, I have moved my business from a shop to my home and have been busy reorganizing my home to be able to do this. Now I have everything here in the same place, and I even know where it is, so I should be able to get a new quote every week.
11 February 2011: If you are in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly. - Nick Lappos chief R&D pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft
31 December 2010: What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back. - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, last recorded words in reply to a request for an autograph as he was climbing into the cockpit of his plane.
17 December 2010: With a short dash down the runway, the machine lifted into the air and was flying. It was only a flight of twelve seconds, and it was uncertain, wavy, creeping sort of flight at best; but it was a real flight at last and not a glide. – Orville Wright, first flight of a heavier-than-air-aircraft, Dec, 17 1903.
10 December 2010: I'm Douglas Corrigan. Just got in from New York, Where am I?...I intended to fly to California. - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, upon arrival in Ireland after his unapproved solo transatlantic flight. He maintained he had "compass troubles"
3 December 2010: How could they possibly be Japanese planes? -Admiral Husband E. Kimmel