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

Sunday Artwork special, highlights the fantastic art of Darryl Legg. Fantastic subject matter, enhanced by some of the best acrylic painting I've seen. He has lots of tutorials on YT too. https://t.co/jeV0pXYZqL

'Keeping up with the Frobishers'!
This 1930s Imperial Airways cutaway poster features a de Havilland Albatross aircraft that was then marketed as 'Frobisher Class', following maritime and railway tradition of naming 'classes' of service.

More 'Greatest Hits' from my 2021 Twitter page...

The Japanese Kawanishi KX-03; a gigantic (and I mean gigantic, see the comparisons!😲) flying boat concept, dreamt up in 1943.
This 500 ton monster project would probably never had got further than some designer's fantasy...but it makes an interesting tweet, all the same! 😂

Just to clear, there were two Fleet Shadowers, one from Airspeed and one from GAL. Neither were put into production, but (like F1 today) designers come up with similar but different ideas, within the same rules.

A fine period cutaway of the Vickers Supermarine Scapa flying boat.
The work of R.J. Mitchell (of Spitfire fame), the RR Kestrel powered Scapa had a limited production run and short service life, soon being replaced by the more powerful Stranraer, in early 1939.

The 'oddest' variant of the stalwart Vickers Wellington, the high altitude MkVI with a pressurised cockpit area.
Designed to bomb from 38,000 ft, this RR Merlin powered prototype was not put into production. The poor tail gunner had to rely on oxygen and very warm clothing!

The Handley Page Hastings served the RAF for almost three decades, despite starting as a development of the WW 2 bomber, the Halifax.
Hindered by its tailwheel arrangement (pushing cargo uphill, when loading!), it was a good aircraft, with (apparently) very comfy pilot's seats!

I love cutaway drawings, especially those that featured in the Eagle comic of the 1950s and 60s. Here are all three British V-bombers, some seen at quite early stages of development. The HP Victor appears to have a flight engineer, something no V-bomber ever had.

Saturday Artwork and something from artist Roger H Middlebrook GAvA, entitled 'Canberra over Coniston'.
This part of the English Lake District is well loved by the public and was the scene of the World Water Speed Attempt by Donald Campbell, that led to his tragic death in 1967.