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** Update 4 July 2011 **
* Update 31 May
2011 *
aircraft
bases
art
&
reference
archive
for
aircraft-related contributions
of a 1920's through 1945 flavor, that could easily
find a place to land on the Spontoon Islands
[including pulp-story & dieselpunk aircraft]
Visiting Aircraft
(opens to new webpage)
More images & text of Visiting aircraft
With art by lnago, Roy D. Pounds II, Arthur Filloy, Kjartan, Aleutian Wolf & Christolithos
"Next time, I get to fly one without the wheels!"
Tali Hartoh flies a US Navy zeppelin-based training aircraft
Art by Roy D. Pounds II - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/steamfox/
Color & character by M. Mitchell Marmel - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/marmelmm/
In the Spontoon Archipelago:
** Versions of historical aircraft **
(opens to new webpage)
* Nakajima Type 15 - maritime recon floatplane - late 1920s *
(Larger file here - 329 KBytes) - art by Jim Groat
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/
In the Spontoon
Archipelago:
Created aircraft (original designs)
(opens to new webpage)
"Spontoon scene" by S.
A.
Gallacci (larger file here - 541
Kbytes)
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/stevegallacci/
Plan
views of the Conway R-3 floatplane - R.J. Bartrop
http://rjbartrop.artspots.com
- very large image here (1.3 MBytes)
More images of the R-3 on the Speed Week
page.
Aviation background
In the Spontoon
Archipelago:
Seaplane
bases
Map of main seaplane terminals in the
Spontoon Lagoon
for scheduled passenger & freight flights, including customs
sheds.
East dock of the Casino Island Seaplane
Terminal.
(This is the smaller regional terminal.)
Aircraft Research
Moon Island wind tunnel (Art by Simon
Barber)
Borrowing the wind tunnel to do some industrial
research.
Secret Engineering? (Scott Thomas)
More aircraft at
the air
races!
"Speed Week" in
the Spontoon Archipelago & other racing aircraft
Update 24-31
August 2008
See Beryl's modified Spitfire at the 1946 trophy
races....
Aircraft
basics
Features a
"Beginner's Guide to Airplanes" by M. Mitchell Marmel
Aircraft
References: Photos & Art
A sampling of real aircraft from the 1930s & early 40s.
Why Seaplanes?
Comments
on
1930s
air
transport
by Ken Fletcher
(Upload 8 September 2008)
Aircraft
identification
and decoration
"Nose
Art"
Update 5 October
2009: Nose art by Stuart McCarthy
Mechanics
Someone's got to
keep everything running....
(opens to a separate webpage)
Uploaded 24 December 2008: (collecting old & new contributions)
Update 19 March 2010
Flight crews
"...'It
makes
you
feel
quite
superior
to
a
seat-of-the-pants
pilot
like
me.
But I'll take an airplane, a road map on my knee, a couple of
temperature gauges and a magnetic compass on my dash,
and I'll fly where I'm going when I want to.'...."
(Skid Payton's piloting principles, in Unreported
by William O'Sullivan,
Five-Novels Monthly, May 1941)
Drucker
Airlines crew uniform (circa 1939)
(Stuart McCarthy)
Drucker Airlines stewardess
uniform (circa 1941)
(Stuart McCarthy)
"Aviatrix" by Chris Goodwin
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/chrisgoodwin/
(larger file here - 1 MBytes)
