Amelia Earhart swoops her Vega around the Golden Gate Bridge

Ref. No. T-22.
Title: TWO GREAT LADIES.
Description: Amelia Earhart's Vega 5B flypast of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco during a foggy morning.
Size: 650 x 370 landscape format.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Date: May 2011.
Price: Go to http://www.southafricanartists.com/showartist.asp?Code=BELL002

The bright yellow ol'bird swoops in low and slow

Ref.No. T-40.
Title: STAYING LOW.
Description: DeHavilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth. This old lady of the skies still enjoys appreciative aircraft status when seen at shows and in museums. Gone are the days when a pilot could just get in, take off and flywhenever and wherever he wanted to. The beautiful drone of the engine caused people to scurry outdoors to see the yellow bird go by, and the pilot would make full use of its slow low flying ability to amaze the onlookers and wave at them. Ah! gone are those days.
Size: 505 x 360 Landscape format.
Date: August 2011.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Price: http://www.southafricanartists.com/showartist.asp?Code=BELL002

The night bomber flies in low and fast to dispatch its bomb before searchlights and ack-ack begin

Ref. No. T-23.
Title: NIGHT ATTACK.
Description: Bristol Beaufighter TF. MK X - NE 429, 489th New Zealand Air Force 489 (New Zealand) Squadron was formed from pilots of the Royal New Zealand Air Force on 12 August 1941 under RAF Coastal Command as an anti-submarine and reconnaissance unit.
The Bristol Beaufighter was a Torpedo Bomber with a crew of two.Maximum speed of 330mph, ceiling 29,000 ft. Max normal range 1500 miles but could extend to 1750 miles. Four 20mm cannon in the belly & up to six .303in browning machine guns in the wings. it could also carry eight 3 -inch rockets, 1605 lb torpedo or a bomb load of 1,000 lb. In the winter of 1940 - 1941 the Beaufighter was used as a night fighter. and in March 1941 the aircraft was used at Coastal Command as a long range strike aircraft. (Wikipedia)
Size: 505 x 360 Landscape format
Date: August 2011.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Price: Go to http://www.southafricanartists.com/showartist.asp?Code=BELL002

The Messerschmitt stalks its prey.

Ref.No.: T-32.
Title: Dawn Hunter.
Description: Messerschmitt BF-109F-4R1 - Alfred Grislawski 9./JG52 Russia June 1941. This plane was a formidable and much feared hunter and killer during the Luftwaffe's reign early in Hitler's campaign to crush Russia. The ME109 patrols through layers of sun washed morning mist, ready to swoop on Russian troops, tanks and gun enplacements like an Eagle after prey.
Size: 660 x 380mm.
Medium:
Date: April 2011.
Price: R2500.00

The ground crew scatter into the dust as the pilot guns the engine to extricate the plane from the sandy apron before take off.

Ref. No.: T-31
Title: Kicking up Dust.
Description: Curtis P-40 Kittyhawk of RAF 112 Shark Squadron, kicking up dust on the dirt apron of the front line at Medenine, Tunisia during WW2. With the collapse of the Allied campaign on the Greek mainland, 112 Sqn withdrew to Crete and then to Egypt, from where it rejoined the North African Campaign, supporting the Eighth Army. This painting depicts the urgency of mission refueling and re-arming prior to hurrying off again to straff and bomb German tanks.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Date: April 2011.
Size: 660 x 400mm.
Price: R2500.00

Threatening storm front billows up behind the returning bomber as sundown looms. The pilot anticipates action.

Ref. No.: T-30.
Title: Anticipating Action.
Description: NORTH AMERICAN MITCHELL B-25J III
North American Mitchell B-25J III Twin engine medium bomber of the RAF during WW2. Homeward bound from a bombing mission over Germany during mid summer1944, the Mitchell B-25J is separated from the squadron and stays ahead of the looming thunder storm as the sun sets.
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The Mitchell bomber was named after Billy Mitchell.
The RAF was allocated 316 B-25Js as Mitchell IIIs. Deliveries took place between August 1944 and August of 1945. However, only about 240 of these planes actually reached Britain, with some being diverted to No. 111 OTU in the Bahamas, some crashing during delivery and some being retained in the USA.
Size: 910 x 610 landscape format.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Date: March 2010.
Price: R4167.00

Banking over Port Elizabeth showing its typical SAAF training colours.

The 4th Harvard in a series of 6 paintings.
Ref. No. T-005C.
Title: Late Arrival #4.
Description: SAAF North American Harvard T-6 banks over Port Elizabeth south of the Airport to announce its late arrival and to request permission to land. The first prototype flew in 1937, the T6G had a top speed of 341 kmh at sea level with an operational ceiling of 6500m.
A batch of 9 Mk I's were delivered between 1940 and 1942, and the SAAF took delivery of their first batch of Harvard Mk II's in 1942, with deliveries continuing until four Harvards were purchased from the Belgian Air Force in 1961.
The SAAF operated a number of variants, including the MkII (Designated in the US as AT-6C), Mk III's (designated in the US as AT-6D or SJN-4) and the T-6G, the rebuilt version of World War II vintage machines. (Extract from SAAF Museum web site)
Medium: Oil on giclee canvas.
Size: 595 x 435mm landscape format.
Date: Feb 2011.
Price: R2,500.00

The distinctive blue nose that drove the German Luftwaffe into submission in Europe during WW2.

Ref No. T-29.
Title: 352nd Bluenoser
Description: North American P-51D Mustang - 352nd Fighter Group - called the "Bluenoser". The P-51D Mustang remains to this day the most widely recognized and deeply revered propeller driven fighter aircraft ever built. There are many reasons for this -- her sleek lines, breathtaking speed, legendary handling, and of course the broad mythology built on her achievements in all theatres of operation. Over 15,000 Mustangs of all types were built in all.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Date: Feb 2011.
Size: 770 x 385 Landscape Format.
Price: R3,000.00

As the clouds break during the rain storm, the sun catches the bare metal and exposes the magnificent old timer.

Ref. No. T-20.
Title: Lady in Waiting.
Description: DOUGLAS DC-3 CARGO. The old bird waits patiently for someone to put it to work again. It will go on waiting and spring to life when called upon in its quest to please and perform, no matter what the conditions and task. This superlative transport aircraft, produced in greater numbers than any other in its category, with almost 11,000 manufactured by the time production ended in 1945, was the most dependable aircraft of its time - Today many are still operational worldwide. During WW2 the USA had the DC-3 converted to a military transport plane and named it the C-47.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Date: January 2011.
Size: 1010 x 510mm.
Price: R3,333.00

The Airspeed Oxford over the 42nd Air School training Base during WWII.

Ref. No. T-14
Title: Distant Memories.
Description: Airspeed Oxford WW2 Trainer, currently a restoration project in the SAAF Port Elizabeth Museum. No. G-AITF depicted flying over the Port elizabeth 42nd air School base during the 1940's.
(SAAF Unofficial website) - Description:
The Oxford Mk I was a general-purpose, bombing and gunnery trainer, usually fitted with a dorsal gun turret.
The Oxford, built to Specification T.23/36, was based on Airspeed's commercial 8-seater craft, the Airspeed AS.6 Envoy. Seven of these had been modified for the South African Air Force as the "Convertible Envoy", which could be equipped at short notice with a single machine-gun in a hand-operated Armstrong Whitworth dorsal turret and bomb racks.
Medium:
Size: 505 x 405 mm.
Date: December 2010.
Price: R3,000.00