WWI Art....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1917 R.A.F. BE2g 16 Squadron - Don Greer....

1916 Nieuport 17 'Vieux Charles' Georges Guynemer - Martin Novotny....

1916 Palestine R.A.F. BE2c, 14 Squadron - Taras Shtyk....

1916 Sopwith Pup Flt Sub-Lt A J Chadwichk, 4 Naval Sqn - S. Tarasovic....

1916 Gallipoli - Ivan Berryman....

Whilst escorting a two-seat Nieuport Gunbus in the skies above Gallipoli in company with the Nieuport 11 of Flight Lt K S Savory on 25th March 1916, Flight Sub Lieutenant 'Bunnie' Bremner's Bristol Scout 1264 of No 2 Wing, RNAS came under attack from a Fokker E.III of Ottoman Fliegerabteilung 6. After a head-on engagement at 9,000ft, the combatants descended to 4,000ft. Savory's aircraft swept past the Scout and fired a short burst at the Eindekker as 'Bunnie' gathered speed to press home his own attack. Sensing that the Eindekker was making a run for home at Chanak on the Asian mainland, the engagement was abandoned and all aircraft returned safely to their bases.

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

"The Sun Sets on Werner Voss" - Wilson Hurley....

1918 Color Guard - James Dietz....

1918 Albatros D.Va 7548-1 Hans-Joachim von Hippel Jasta 5 - Martin Novotny....

1918 Aviatik Berg DI - Oblt .Frank Linke-Crawford Flik 60J - Toko Models....

1918 Bristol F.2B D8084 Sydney Dalrymple. 139 Sqn RAF, Italia - Martin Novotny....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1918 Fokker DVII Leutnant Josef Mai - Ivan Berryman....

1918 Holy Lands - James Dietz....

1917 Pfalz DIII 4011-17 Jasta 21s Ltn d R Fritz Höhn - Robert Karr....

1917 Fate Waits - trial flights of the Fokker triplane - James Dietz....

1917 Duel Above the Piave. Brumowski and Linke-Crawford share in forcing down a Nieuport scout near the mouth of the Piave river - Ivan Berryman....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1917 Airco DH4 9237 Captain Evan Dickson - Ivan Berryman....

1917 Friedrischhaffen FF33 - Ivan Berryman....

1917 Ernst Udet 10th victory - Vincze Ferenc És Ferencné....

1917 Hell or High water - James Dietz....

1917 Flik 24 Hansa-Brandenburg D.I (28.37) Josef Kiss - Vincze Ferenc És Ferencné....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1917 Nieuport 24 Boris Guber - Ivan Berryman....

1917 DFW CV Seweryn Fleischer....

1917 Albatros DII - Mark Postlethwaite....

1915 Max Immelmann shoots down a Vickers F.B. 5 - Ivan Berryman....

1918 94 Aero Squadron Nieuport 28C1 Douglas Campbell - Taras Shtyk....

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1918 94 Aero Sqn SPAD XIII Reed Chambers - Two Down to Glory - William S. Phillips....

1918 Fokker DVII strafing - Michael Turner....

1918 Fokker DVII Ernst Udet....

1918 Fokker DrI 152/15 - Kostas Kavvathias....

1918 Richthofen the Younger - Russell Smith....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1918 Halberstadt CL.IV (Rol.) - Seweryn Fleischer....

1918 Handley Page O-400....

1918 RAF pilots SE5a - James Dietz....

1918 Sopwith Camel....

1917 Nieuport 17 Baracca....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1917 Roland CII - Andrzej Deredos....

1917 SIA 7B1 - Seweryn Fleischer....

1916 Roland CII vs FE 2d - Ivan Berryman....

1916 Fokker EIII A-H - Z Valka....

1915 Pensacola Bay - Steve Remington....

Lt. Cdr. H. C. Mustin, Naval Serial 03460, made the first catapult launch of an airplane from a moving ship on November 5, 1915. The armored cruiser USS North Carolina, ACR-12, arrived in Pensacola on September 9, 1915 to become the station ship for the Aeronautic Station. The test aeroplane launching device was installed on the cruiser in preparation for the first catapult launch. Lt. Cdr. Mustin, nicknamed "Rum", piloted a Curtiss F flying boat, AB-2, for the initial test launching. Following his test, the launch catapult was raised to turret height to gain more clearance with the water and an on-purpose crane and track became part of the cruiser equipment. During the initial test, the AB-2 was raised to the catapult level by use of a jury-rigged boat spar extension to the 10" gun barrel and swung to the rail by training the turret. Beginning in April of 1916, the Navy mounted 103-foot catapults on the armored cruisers North Carolina, Huntington, and Seattle. The catapults took up about 20 percent of each cruiser's weather deck, masking half its main battery. They were removed in 1917 when America entered World War I.
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Nice ones!

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1913 The First Aeroplane In Alaska - Steve Remington....

James V. Martin organized the first competitive air meet in America at Squantum, Mass. for the Harvard Aeronautical Society in 1910; he traveled to England in Jan. 1911 for flight training and returned with Certificate #55 and a new wife, Lilly Irvine, the first English woman aviator. Martin owned a Martin-Gage Tractor used for exhibitions. Some businessmen promoters from Fairbanks, Alaska engaged Martin in 1913 to fly at Fairbanks which entailed a circuitous steamship/rail/steamboat shipment of the crated Gage. Martin flew low over Fairbanks for 3 days; with no sale, the airplane was shipped back to San Francisco but history was made as the flights were the first airplane to fly in Alaska. Martin later owned an aircraft company, was an inventor and produced a 3-wheel microcar.

1913 Roland Garros At Monaco - Steve Remington....

Roland Garros, a French sportsman, flew in the U. S. with the Moisant International Aviators before returning to France and becoming the test pilot for Morane-Saulnier at Villacoublay. He entered a M-S G model on floats for the inaugural Schneider Cup Race, the Coupe Internationale des Aero-Marins, which was run in April 1913 as part of the Grand Prix de Monaco, the second Monaco waterplane meet. Terrible weather and crashes clouded the results - contemporary reporting differs greatly from current popular history. Garros is credited with a dubious second place. Aero and Hydro noted that prior to the meet, Garros "..went out and did hair-raising performances over Monte Carlo and Cap Martin, making spiral dives apparently onto the Tir-au-Pigeons and into the harbor," the subject of this painting.Stretched canvas size 15" x 30".Garros later made the first solo flight across the Mediterranean in September in a M-S H Model. He served in World War I and invented a rather crude device to allow shooting through the propeller which was tested on a M-S L Parasol. Shot down, escaped and returned to combat, Garros was killed on October 5, 1918 near Vouziers. An excellent tennis player with Stade Français club, a new stadium was dedicated the Roland-Garros Stadium in 1928 where the French Internationals are still held.

1913 Robert Fowler challenges Culebra Cut - Steve Remington....

Robert G. Fowler made the first U.S. East to West transcontinental flight, completed on February 8, 1912, in a Wright Model B. He purchased a tractor biplane from Jay Gage of Griffith Park in September 1912; he flew some exhibition flights and replaced the original engine with an 80 h.p. Hall-Scott engine and equipped the Gage with floats and an extra seat. Jay Gage designed the wings so that they could be cut apart for crating in anticipation of shipment to Panama for the goal of flying non-stop across the Isthmus of Panama. Fowler contracted with a French movie firm to take a cameraman, Ray Duhem, along to film the flight. Fowler and his support crew sailed for Panama on April 1, 1913. He departed Panama City on the Pacific side on April 27, 1913 and landed in Limon Bay one hour and forty-five minutes later, being the first to make a non-stop, coast-to-coast flight. He encountered "treacherous winds" while circling over the Culebra Cut area of the Panama Canal, then under construction, and reported that the airplane had dived out of control temporarily. This painting captures that moment over the Culebra Cut. Ray Duhem continued his photography regardless. Fowler then flew in a drenching rain squall at Gamboa. Fowler and Duhem sailed for New York on the Ancon on May 2nd.

1913 Sopwith Bat-Boat....

n March 1913 the Sopwith Bat-Boat made its first flight from the River Medina having been assembled and launched from Sam Saunders works, the "Folly Sheds" on the east bank of the River Medina south of the Folly Inn. The Sopwith Bat-Boat was designed by aviation pioneer T. O. M. Sopwith's company Sopwith Aviation Ltd based at Kingston-upon-Thames.The Bat-Boat gained its name from a mythical flying machine that was mentioned in one of Rudyard Kipling's short stories. Its design featured a flying boat hull based on one of Sam Saunders' light and powerful high speed boats and used his patented "Consuta" plywood type construction which gave excellent lightness and strength that suited an aircraft application. Sopwith Aviation Ltd was responsible for the overall design of the Bat-Boat and construction of the bi-plane wing and tail assembly.

1912 First to Avalon - Glenn L Martin....

Glenn L. Martin began his aviation career by manufacturing Curtiss knock-offs in an old Santa Ana cannery in 1911; selling airplanes and flying on the exhibition circuit called for promotion which came with his successful attempt to fly to Catalina Island from Balboa. He built several Model 12s, one of which he equipped with a pontoon and other modifications to make the record setting, over water distance flight of over thirty miles, besting Bleriot's Channel flight record. Flying at noon above an overcast sky, Martin luckily found Avalon Bay.This painting features Glenn L. Martin making that first flight to Avalon, Catalina in his aircraft #12 which was for the most part patterned after a Curtiss. Fortunately there are several photos taken at Avalon on that grey May day in 1912; interestingly, photos appearing of #12 prior to the event, and afterwards, show significant differences from the configuration used for that record setting flight. The old airplanes allow little use of color in their depiction which doesn't exactly delight an artist's soul. Very few machines were painted with anything but clear dope or varnish; many airplanes used Goodyear rubberized fabric, with no descriptive color but "blah", which was applied to the structure with no dope or paint required. No bright color schemes, no nose art, no insignia, no camouflage but occasionally some advertising signage and even that was usually in black. Paint just added weight and complexity when fixing the inevitable and frequent damage.Holly Hill House and the Island Incline Railway funicular are lee shore structures illuminated by the dull grey, spring marine layer. The Hill House remains today in a somewhat updated form; the bluff is still there, mostly unchanged by time, although the shoreline is now developed with numerous piers.

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1912 Harriet Quimby Channel Obscured- Steve Remington....

Flying a borrowed Bleriot XI, American aviator Harriet Quimby took off from Dover, England on April 16, 1912 in an attempt to become the first woman to fly solo between England and France. Aiming for Calais, Quimby missed her destination and landed thirty miles from Calais, near Hardelot, France. Afterwards, she wrote, "In an instant I was beyond the cliffs and over the channel. Far beneath I saw the Mirror's tug, with its stream of black smoke … Then the quickening fog obscured my view. Calais was out of sight. I could not see ahead of me or at all below."

1911 T.O.M. Sopwith - Steve Remington....

British aviator T.O.M. Sopwith toured in the U.S. between May and October 1911, entering races, exhibitions and carrying passengers with his Howard Wright biplane and a new, special two-place Bleriot XI. He entered the Harvard-Boston meet at Quantam in September 1911. The highlight of the meet was the Boston Lighthouse Race, taking off from Squantum, flying around the Little Brewster Island lighthouse and returning to the Squantum field. Unseen in this painting is the competitor aircraft of Earle Ovington who is flying much higher and slightly behind Sopwith in this race around the lighthouse. Sopwith was one of Britain's leading Air Pioneers, famous for the Sopwith Camel of World War I and later becoming the founder President of the Hawker Siddeley Group. He was a leading yachtsman, racing driver, and aviator.This was a rather unusual configuration for the Bleriot XI, with the pilot moved forward and the "passenger" seat located in the bay normally occupied by the pilot; later two-place versions placed the passenger behind the wing, one bay aft. The rotary engine and landing gear was moved one new bay forward to compensate for the passenger's weight. Sopwith's airplane is the only example of this configuration that I have run across. The configuration has been documented by several photos taken at the time.

1910 First Flight in Hawaii - Steve Remington....

Four members of the Curtiss Exhibition Company arrived in Ohau in December 1910 along with two brand new Curtiss biplanes. Agent Whipple Hall, experienced pilots J.C. "Bud" Mars and Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin, and designer and pilot Tod Shriver, together, would demonstrate the Curtiss machines; it would be the first flight of an airplane in Hawaii. Exhibition tickets were sold and Bud Mars was airborne in the "Skylark" on December 31, 1910 at Samuel Damon's Moanalua Polo Field, located only a few miles from the current Honolulu International Airport and the current site of the Moanalua Golf Course. The Tripler Army Medical Center now occupies the top of the background ridge; the hillside had native plants clinging to the rocks in 1910 but has had significant planting introduced since then. Ala Aolani St. now runs along this background scene.After three days of exhibition flying, The Curtiss group was disappointed with the paid attendance as the majority of the crowd avoided paying by witnessing the flights from adjoining hillsides. In addition, strong and gusty winds prevailed during most of his exhibitions. Somewhat disgruntled, the group departed Hawaii which was only the first stop on Baldwin's Pacific Exhibition Tour which demonstrated in the Philippines, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries, a strenuous program for travel in 1910/1911.

1918 SPAD XIII Rufo di Calabria....

1914 Rumpler Taube Gunther Plüschow....

Lucky13 · Oct 28, 2023

1918 Ernst Udet - Jim Dietz....

1916 Zeppelin! cover - Ray Rimmell....

On the night of 23/24 September 1916, Zeppelins set out to bomb London. These were newly designed and built Zeppelins, superior to the Zeppelins which had previously flown over England.

L32

Zeppelin L32 was shot down by Frederick Sowrey, RFC, aged 23, and crashed near Snails Farm, South Green, Great Burstead, Near Billericay. Its target was London, but because of an anti-aircraft barrage, it dropped its bombs near Purfleet. It began to make its was back to Germany when it was intercepted by Sowrey who was on routine night patrol. The airship was picked out in the night sky by searchlights and Sowrey launched his attack. Firing three drums of incendiary ammunition into the body of the airship, she caught alight and plummeted to the ground at sometime after 1 a.m. All 22 of the crew were killed.

One witness described how in the night sky he saw a pink glare which turned to coppery red, then a ball of flame emerged which changed its shape to a perpendicular cylindrical mass of flame.