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Moonlight serenade

Moonlight serenade

This Messerschmitt Me 262 B- 1a/U1, WNr. 110635, red 10, belong to the 10/NJG 10 and pilot of this airplane was Oberleutenant Kurt Welter. Oberleutenant Kurt Welter was German top jet night fighter pilot during the WW2. This airplane show on this art has standard camouflage pattern with black bottom of the airplane, green top [...]

Burn to ground

Burn to ground

One of the victims of Mafred von Richthofen was Barker, pilot of 3 Sq was flying Camel D6439 and was shot down at 1840 hrs SW of Bois de Hamel. His aircraft caught on fire and burned until it hit the ground. This digital in action art show this very sad episode from the combat [...]

Climb

Climb

The Fokker S-14 Derwent powered prototype shown during a rolling climb. It was flown by Fokker test pilot Gerben Sonderman, who was later tragically killed in this plane during a demonstration in the United States. This artwork is dedicated to this great pilot! The same art present airplane which never becomes NATO principal trainer and [...]

Early bird

Early bird

Fokker Dr.I has its evolution in development and from the very start it have completely different wings layout as well constructions elements. This impression in flight is the oil painting, small size 24×32 cm. Scene present one of the possible flight test during the development of this famous WW1 fighter airplane. Notable is the natural [...]

KNVvL photo archive

KNVvL photo archive

LetLetLet Warplanes has come into the possession of some 250 photos from the collection of the Dutch Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society ‘KNVvL’. Photos were used by the editorial staff of the KNVvL ‘house’-magazine VLIEGWERELD, later AVIA-VLIEGWERELD, for publiation in these magazines. Although all photos on Dutch aviation from this collection are elsewhere, and although it [...]

SAAB 35 Draken

SAAB 35 Draken

To defend its neutrality during the second world war, Sweden faced the problem that they could not easily order fighters from other countries. In the U.S.A. they had ordered a number of modern Consolidated Vultee Model 48 fighters. However, the United States placed an export ban on these planes. As a result Sweden had to [...]

Frank Luke

Frank Luke

Frank Luke Jr.  [May 19, 1897 in Phoenix, Arizona – September 29, 1918 near Murvaux France] was an American fighter ace, ranking second among U.S. Air Service pilots to Eddie Rickenbacker in number of aerial victories during World War I.  Frank Luke is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. Luke Air Force Base, an [...]

Nad poljem Solunskim

Nad poljem Solunskim

This digital art which I have named “Nad poljem Solunskim” is made under the impression of the Serbian pilots and their combat history. Serbia is among the first country in the world who have established air force and among the first one to use it operationally in combat. After the retreat to Greece, Serbian equipment [...]

RIAT 2007

RIAT 2007

The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]