Airplanes – Caught in my headlights

Jaguar XJ220

A long awaited sketch from a brilliant show I went to about a month and a half ago. This was a show at the Canadian Heritage Warplane Museum in Hamilton, and it was a show dedicated to Jags, not planes, though Evelyn and I spent about half our time toddling through the amazing aircraft andContinue reading “Jaguar XJ220”

Quick Sketch…

A very quick sketch of the unlikely – a Jaguar Mk II with a Hawker Harrier behind it. Only at Brooklands… 🙂

737 in Hong Kong…, No, an A333

A sketch of the plane we took from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur. Drawn from the window at gate 60 while drinking a remarkably expensive latte.

Avro Lancaster Detail

Another Sketch from the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum… this a detail of the rear gunner’s “pod” at the back of the plane – the Lancaster is huge – but the positions the gunners occupied appear very cramped…

McDowall Monoplane

Sorry for the hiatus! I’ve been travelling with family – went to Ottawa, Quebec City and Montreal – managed to get some sketches done and I’ll be posting them daily… This one was done at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa. This is a plane that was basically hand-built in, (if I recallContinue reading “McDowall Monoplane”

BMW 801 Radial Engine (detail)

To see this in person is to be beguiled by the amazing complexity of the engine. Drawn from a photograph taken at the BMW museum in Munich.

ME109

As Promised (though a day late) another Messerschmitt… (a 109) it’s a quick sketch and the discriminating amongst you will complain about the elipse of the rear wheel as compared to the tail-plane… My bad. First plane I’ve sketched in a while – good fun!