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OCTOBER 22, 2021 - NEW AVIATION ART ANTHONY SAUNDERS
This new Aviation Art Print is now available to order, Return To Ridgewell by Anthony Saunders. This Aviation Art print Commemorating the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain during WWII comes as a Limited Edition, a Matted Collector’s Edition and Artist Proof. To see more details about this print click the link above.Always check back for new Aviation Art [...]
TODAY IN AVIATION HISTORY - OCTOBER 20, 1956 - FIRST FLIGHT OF THE BELL MODEL 204
The Bell Model 204 (designated XH-40-BF serial number 55-4459 by the United States Army) made its first flight at Bell's helicopter facility in Hurst, Texas, with Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith. The XH-40 is a light helicopter with six seats and a turboshaft engine. Its primary duty is [...]
OCTOBER 15, 2021 - NEW AVIATION ART BY PETER CHILELLI
This new Aviation Art Print is now available to order, Beauty And The Bones by Peter Chilelli. The Bones made a spectacular return to naval aircraft at that time, with the first F-4Bs of VF-84 displaying a waving Jolly Rogers over their tail surfaces. Flamboyant color schemes were not lacking on the US Navy at the time, [...]
OCTOBER 13, 2021 - NEW AVIATION BOOK - NO WAY OUT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE B-24 "LADY BE GOOD" AND HER CREW BY STEVEN R. WHITBY
This new Aviation Book, No Way Out: The Untold Story of the B-24 "Lady Be Good" and Her Crew by Steven R. Whitby is now available to order. The first and only combat mission for the B-24 Liberator “Lady Be Good.” On April 4, 1943, she left her base on the North African coast of Libya to [...]
TODAY IN AVIATION HISTORY - OCTOBER 9, 1943 - VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 113
The Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft facility in Marienburg, East Prussia (Malbork, Poland), where the Luftwaffe's Fw 190 fighter was being manufactured, was attacked by approximately 100 American heavy bombers as part of VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 113. Marienburg was supposed to be outside the range of Allied bombs early in the war because German [...]
OCTOBER 5, 2021 - NEW AVIATION ART BY KEITH BURNS
Now available to order is a new Aviation Art Print Preparing For Action by Keith Burns. In his exciting painting Preparing for Action, award-winning artist Keith Burns gives us a fine depiction of a Typhoon from the 2nd Tactical Air Force, refueled and re-armed, preparing for another death- defying, low-level mission to strike fear and destruction into [...]
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 - NEW AVIATION ART BY PETER CHILELLI
This new Aviation Art Print is now available to order, Ruhr Valley Gauntlet by Peter Chilelli. On the night of May 17th 1943, British Royal Air Forces bombed the Moehne Dam, using a special bomb developed for this purpose. The bombardment resulted in a huge tidal wave, that rolled from Möhnesee through the Ruhr Valley to the [...]
TODAY IN AVIATION HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 - Captain Michael N. Antoniou
On September 27, 1964, Captain Michael N. Antoniou flew the number two Bell YUH-1D-BF Iroquois, 60-6029, Bell Helicopter for World Record for Distance Without Landing from from Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of southern California, non-stop to Rogers, Arkansas. The distance flown was 2,170.70 kilometers (1,348.81 miles).The UH-1D Iroquois (Model 205) from Bell Helicopter Co. was [...]
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 - NEW AVIATION ART BY RICK HERTER
Now available to order in muliple options is a new Aviation Art Print, Winchester Over The Hammurabi by Rick Herter. Operation Iraqi Freedom A-10 Warthogs had a critical role of destroying ground targets throughout the country. One mission in particular featured A-10's flown by pilots from the 110th Fighter Wing, a unit of the Michigan Air National [...]
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 - NEW AVIATION ART BY PETER CHILELLI
A new Aviation Art Print by Peter Chilelli, Aerial Firefighting is now available to order. This Aviation Art Print depicts Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aerial firefighting. All Peter Chilelli's prints come in many options to choose from just like this one, to see those options click on the link above.Planejunkie is always adding new Military Art Prints, [...]
