Trev Clark's Obscure Aviation History 🚁さんのイラストまとめ

The power of art!
Saturday Artwork is a piece of 'Commercial Art', made as an advertisement for Rolls-Royce Aero Division in the early 1960s. The artist gives you a view of an English Electric Lightning in full re-heat that would have been a little tricky to witness in reality!

A wonderful image of a Handley Page Hastings C Mk1 of Royal Air Force Transport Command, dating from the late 1950s or early 1960s.
This particular aircraft appears to have no 'spinners' on the her props, not something I've ever seen before on a Hastings.

Towing gliders with a long wire could be a dangerous business, so this 'short tow link' was experimented with in the late 1940s, using a Curtiss C-46 and a WACO CG-4 glider.
This fixed 'tow-bar' replaced the long wire rope, but was not adopted. It looks just as dangerous to me!

I'm sure it's a 'misty morning' somewhere today.

As its almost Christmas, here's an supplementary 'Saturday Artwork'.
This artwork is so new, the paint is probably still a little tacky! Artist Robert Firszt portrays Hawker Hurricanes of 302 (Polish) Squadron, in action during the Battle of Britain.

Airline flying from a bygone age...

I'm feeling a little 'festive' at last, so here are three wonderful 1950s Eagle Comic features, by cutaway artist 'supreme' L Ashwell-Wood.

Saturday Artwork features the early 1960s skies over the Royal Air Force College at RAF Cranwell!
Artist Anthony Cowland shows Percival Jet Provost and de Havilland Vampire trainers, 'pouncing' on an unsuspecting Vickers Varsity, all part of the College's fleet at the time.

While testing a radical 'flying wing' aircraft, the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52, test pilot 'Jo' Lancaster, DFC encountered severe pitch oscillations in a 320 mile per hour dive. He fired his Martin-Baker Mk 1 ejector seat, becoming the first ever 'live' ejection, in 1949.

In the days before automated flight test instrumentation, things were done a little differently!
The first Boeing XF8B on a test flight, along with a piggy-back 'flight test engineer' hunched over behind the pilot.