#aeroplanes

[stone-cold-groove]

Our growing cities. Our shrinking world. Illustration detail from an ad produced by The Austin Company - 1930.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

BOAC Welcome Aboard 1971, magazine, Clive Irving Ltd., Cornmarket Group, W.H.S. Advertising Ltd. (cover by Christa Peters)

[nocternalrandomness]

Air-to-air photography by John Dibbs

[vintagepromotions]

LOT Polish Airlines travel poster (c. 1950). Artwork by Janusz Grabianski.

[skydarcyedwards]

I'm at the scale model airport photographing the tiny planes.

[ymas00]

James and his Aeroplanes

Ellie Carter, Britain's youngest ever female pilot flew James's previous plane G-OCOK (around 17 at the time)

Yes, James, she knows this...

Engine Fail in G-OCOK

Compton Abbas Airfield

Uh... what?

The Decathlon was G-OCOK. The Scout is G-IIIJ. And in between there was a Cessna.

Bonus:

From the official accident report of James putting a Cessna upside-down while landing it at Bentwater Airfield in 2014.

"The pilot stated that he underestimated the severity of the gusting crosswind and had been unable to prevent the aircraft yawing into wind. He commented that the aircraft had a “notoriously big fin”, making it particularly susceptible to crosswinds, and that in future he would avoid landing in a crosswind of this magnitude."

No injuries, thank goodness, although I seem to remember James saying his passenger was almost hit in the head by a metal toolbox that had gone flying.

[obsidian-sphere]

From the Aviation Book by Haywood Leslie Davis, 1918

[pysgodyn]

needed to doodle before bed