Aviation Art:Night Freighters
 

Each painting is 20cm x 25cm acrylic on stretched canvas. The white flecks on each piece are just reflection of the scanning light on the high gloss finish & are not visible on the paintings. Also the colours & crispness seem to be lost in the scanning process.

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As the dark,purple cloak of night draws stealthily from east to west,swarms of nocturnal flying freighters hurtle twixt darkened 'dromes. Commanded by brave & diligent pilots, characterised by an obvious lack of 'Ray-ban Aviators',they swiftly bring Sydney Morning Heralds fresh to Adelaide,plump newly picked Bowen mangoes to Melbourne or the very latest Sudokus to Sydney.

To the men & women of the night freighters......WE SALUTE YOU !!!!

Hullo AS,

those are magnificent, especially the pencil.

What???? No Westwinds!!!!!!

DF.

These paintings are acrylic - if you tried to paint a Pelair Westwind the paint might wash off under the water*.

Another great piece of work AS :ok:




(*reference Norfolk Is for those who didn't get it.....)

Wot.............no Diesel 9s'! :eek:

Seriously, fantastic art work - really like it. :ok:

Definetly need the Ipec DC-9, Ansett B727 and Electra.

Fantastic. :)

Can I get a higher res scan of one of them?

das Uber Soldat, those are the biggest I'm allowed on Pprune,but if you PM me your email address,I'll send you bigger piccys. They are very fuzzy on the scan. In real life the colours & crispness are WAY better.

stationair 8, I had an enormous list of freighters to choose those 4 from. One day I'll do freighters of Westwind,B727,DC9,DC3,Electra,Carvair & Bristol Freighter.

As usual fantastic work!!!

Ahh.........the Bristol Freighter (or Frightener). Remember one having an engine failure out of Hobart when I was training. Because of Mt Lord the pilot had to turn left through the circuit at Cambridge. The poor sod in the tower was desperately trying to get the three aircraft in the circuit there out of the way.

Later got to have a look at the cockpit of the beastie as the poor engineers changed the engine in pouring rain and no hanger. In those days you could walk out onto the tarmac and say you were from the aero club and could you please have a look inside. No one ever said "no", just "don't touch anything". Different days.

Don't forget the old Piper PA-31/350, the good old workhorse for many companies like Airlines of Tasmania, Australian Air Charters, Flinders Island Airlines.

Lots of people got a start at Airlines of Tas on the Heron and then moved onto the Pa-31/350, flying the TNT night freight run out of Hobart to Launceston then Tullamarine.

"AE" I can only hope yr not married there, yr misses would be an aviation widow!:-) Again amazing work:D:D The old 'Arg' is fab the rest although excellent are still too modern to be of any interest:-)

Don't forget the L35's they have done freight as well around the traps inc Melb with TNT I think back in the 80's??

Wmk2

So many night freighters....so little time. Maybe I should just be a night freighter artist. Yes Wally I too,am of the older generation. Memories of the Wards Learjets,Bristol Freighters,Argosys,Electras & when I was a schoolboy watching the Ansett Carvairs clatter overhead. My wife kicked me out years ago,& just as well. My chockers loungeroom is my gallery,the dining room is my studio,one bedroom is a painting store room & the other two bedrooms are full of blank canvases & art supplies.

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"AE" to sum up yr last post................YR IN HEAVEN THERE buddy:ok::ok:No misses.............join the club (it's expanding) sold mine on Ebay many years ago, damn sellers fees costs a bomb !:E

In the words of someone famous .............."ahhhhh women are like elephants to me, nice to look at but ya wouldn't wanna own one:..........:E:E

Wmk2

Wally

Do you remember the undignified exit of the Argosy's at Essendon?

CG

Galah, I was just speaking to another 'aviation tragic' today about the Argosy's fate. Imagine if one had been donated to an aviation museum.

Here is pictures of the end. You can all look. I don't want to see.

VH-IPA AW-650 Argosy

How come no one has pushed for a painting of the Cessna 209.
It hauls more than its share

Remember one having an engine failure out of Hobart when I was training

I don't recall that .. he should have followed the escape and turned right at the threshold .. or was the failure after the left turn to intercept track ?

about the Argosy's fate.

Ron T has a lot to answer for for cutting them up. He only got a few thousand as I recall and that in the face of other offers to but at least one as I recall for a gate guard. I remember watching the chopper cut them up ...

John, it was probably 1968, the left engine failed after crossing the HB 30 threshold. I suspect that the remaining engine pushed the nose left and he decided to "go with the flow" as I don't think the climb performance on one was anything to write home about.

It was certainly the left engine because I can remember sitting in the port seat looking at the poor bu@@ers quietly drowning outside the window.

I remember the Frightner, Argosies, Diesels, Lears, and a faint memory of a B18 in and out of EN when I was a young tacker, must of had an affect as I flew the "modern" 4 engine job many years later...man I'm gettin old:}