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

OMG!!😲
Just when you think you've seen all of the best English Electric Lightning photos and have a favourite....you stumble over this one on Facebook!
I believe it is the work of @BlickyIan who publishes books on many of the RAF's fast front-line hardware, using his own images.

A very 'long-lived' carrier-borne aircraft from France, the Breguet Br.1050 Alizé.
First flown in 1956, the Rolls Royce Dart powered anti-submarine aircraft was finally retired by the Aéronautique Navale in 2000.
I believe that one remains airworthy on the airshow circuit today.

A new artist for my 'Saturday Artwork'; Gareth Hector!
Entitled 'Bottleneck' it features Hawker Typhoons during the Battle of the Falaise Pocket in August 1944.
He does a great job of portraying the job the 'Tiffies' were best at...'low down and dirty'!
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The Vought XF5U 'Flying Flapjack' was an experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft.
Its 'novel' design concept had been proven with a smaller prototype, but the predicted long development programme meant it would soon be overtaken by newer jet machines.
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Some illustrations from '50 Years of the RAF', just the sort of thing a 10 year-old me would have devoured in every detail. I guess we would only need a singel page nowadays.😂😂😂

Saturday Artwork is this charming representation of a Carvair of BUA (another Freddie Laker project) coming in to land at Southend Airport by Malcolm Root.
As usual with this artist, a classic British vehicle is included, together this time with a 'period clad' pedestrian too!😂

The Armstrong Whitworth 'flying wing' airliner did get as far as a small scale prototype aircraft, which actually flew. However, it is a great shame that this version got no further than these cutaway drawings. It needed at least two navigators, according the key!

The Kawanishi H11 Soku, a large transport flying boat, designed in Japan, during 1944.
Aimed at moving large numbers of troops across long distances, it was still being developed when the prototype was destroyed by US aircraft in May 1945.

A superb 1951 image of a Royal Navy Fairey Firefly AS 5, then based at RNAS Ford in West Sussex. Originally a wartime aircraft, the Firefly saw service well into the 1950s. Over seventy were later converted to remote control target drones.😢

Saturday Artwork. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Today's art is of a Hawker Hind of 602 Sqn RAuxAF in the late 1930s.
It is depicted (by artist D. Cameron) flying at night, over the Glasgow Imperial Exhibition. Not an event I've heard of, so perhaps a Scottish follower can enlighten me?