Echoes in the Sky @ exoticaviation.bsky.socialさんのイラストまとめ

hightly acceptable art from Rasmus Poulsen

(https://t.co/DHUprlHUV6)

military surplus S/VTOL aircraft laying down topsoil - in order to create agriculture in a remote arid region.

from an article in the FLIGHT International 75th Anniversary special, 21/04/84, by John E. Allen - imagining aviation in the year 2059. Art by Frank Munger

art by the great Stan Mott, who also "drove a gokart around the world from February 1961 to July 1964, through 28 countries, starting and ending in New York City"

(via https://t.co/iE4AIUtA54)

"..and is convinced that ordinary aeroplanes are built on wrong principles.
His machine has 2 sets of rotor vanes, motor driven, each projecting a stream of compressed air under the fuselage.
If his theory is correct, expansion of the air streams will lift the insect plane” (2/2)

from the cover of “Tech - Youth” (Техника - Молодежи) No. 2, 1954
(https://t.co/BguDVpN7Su)

found it! art by Peter Andrew Jones (@pajartstudio), circa 1975 - used on the cover of "The Quest of the DNA Cowboys", by Mick Farren
(via https://t.co/y6zMJr29dh)
this will probably be the most left field content I post, but I make no promises..