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  1. Air Commodore Charles Kingsford-Smith

    Art

    Maker: Barker, David Crothers

    Portrait of Air Commodore Charles Kingsford-Smith, MC., A.F.C. (RAAF and NZPAF), 19th Battalion, wearing flying headgear. At the age of 18 Charles Kingsford-Smith enlisted as a private in the A.I.F., ...

    ART11776

  2. Aircraft Taking Off

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    Depicts a Boston Bomber taking off.

    ART23489

  3. Airforce

    Art

    Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown

    Royal Australian Air Force poster featuring a pilot flying a Canberra Bomber. The poster is a monochrome image in purple, with the pilot's head in the centre of the composition; the pilot is wearing a...

    ARTV06553

  4. Airman (pattern)

    Art

    Maker: Ewers, Ray

    Figure of an airman in uniform, carrying a parachute. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture in the N...

    ART90972

  5. American bomber pilots

    Art

    Maker: Baird, John

    Two American bomber pilots are depicted playing cards and smoking on board a flight to Darwin.

    ART27891

  6. American pilot

    Art

    Maker: Baird, John

    A portrait of an American Pilot on board a Douglas Dakota DC3 aircraft, with the interior of the cabin shown in some detail behind him.

    ART27901

  7. "Attack!" Pilot of a Sikorsky "Kingfisher"

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    The pilot in the cockpit canopy of Sikorsky-Kingfisher thrusts forward the control column and dives his aircraft.

    ART23395

  8. Australian Beaufighter in flight

    Art

    Maker: Ragless, Max

    An Australian Beaufighter in flight. Seen from the air, far below the coastline and landscape are also visible.

    ART26035

  9. Awaiting the return of a flight from an OP

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Scene of members of the 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, standing and looking at they sky. Dargie noted, "Standing on a wrecked German plane, the Intelligence Officer of the Squadron scans t...

    ART23897

  10. Bomb Dive

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    'Bomb Dive' attempts to express the tense vibrant moment of an aircraft hurtling and screaming downward. It is a life-size composition. In the artist's words: "The suggestion of an aircraft cockpit is...

    ART27579

  11. Captain Kenneth J Creen, USAF

    Art

    Maker: Gilmour, Ronald L

    Caricature of Captain Kenneth J Creen, United States Air Force.

    ART94246

  12. Checking up on the R.T. of a Kittyhawk Fighter, before take-off

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    A pilot standing on a wing of a Kittyhawk plane, looking into and checking the cockpit. Dargie noted, "The pilots' life may depend on his R.T. It must be perfect before he leaves the ground, and the ...

    ART23896

  13. Clive Caldwell, Darwin

    Art

    Maker: Baird, John

    A portrait of Flight Lieutenant Clive Caldwell (402107), RAAF, looking ahead as he stands leaning against a mantle piece. Behind him on the wall is a boar's head mounted on bamboo. Flight Lt Caldwell ...

    ART27969

  14. Clive Caldwell's Spitfire cockpit

    Art

    Maker: Baird, John

    Cockpit study of Wing Commander Clive 'Killer' Caldwell's fighter plane, No. 452 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

    ART27959

  15. Coat tailing, drawing for cartoon in 'The Daily Telegraph'

    Art

    Maker: Mahony, Will

    Published in the Daily Telegraph the day after D-Day; British aircraft and flotilla are on the move. 'Coat-tailing' may refer to the British following the lead of the United States.

    ART94326

  16. Colour tests

    Art

    Maker: Hinder, Frank

    This drawing was made at the Richmond Air Base. The title 'colour tests' indicates that the artist and camofleur, Frank Hinder, was testing colours on aircraft. Three men attend to the aircraft while ...

    ART29268

  17. Damaged Kittyhawk on Escarpment Drome

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Damaged Kittyhawk on Escarpment Drome. This plane crashed landed upside down. The pilot walked away unhurt, Libya.

    ART22373

  18. De-Briefing

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    The procedures known as 'briefing' and 'de-briefing' were part of an airman's lot. Briefing occured shortly before an air operation - whether small or massive - when the participating crews were assem...

    ART26549

  19. [Dozing, sleeping and reading pilots in deck chairs, in a dispersal hut]

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Depicts a number of figures; some sleeping, some dozing and other reading and reclining in deck chairs, in a dispersal hut, during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WE...

    ART96375

  20. drawing for endpiece for Air service in the Middle East

    Art

    Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank

    An airman is shown climbing into (or out of) the cockpit of a single winged aircraft. he is wearing a flying suit with cap and headset.

    ARTI00777

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