Stories and Illustrations of combat airplanes, missiles and the people that flew them

I learn a lot about life drawing airplanes. NERD ALERT:  This post is really just musing on the futility of trying to get artwork 'perfe...

  Finished! The above is fifteen years in the making — I complained about the foolishness of the first version I completed in 2009 on my Sub...

  NOTICE TO READERS & FOLLOWERS Support for my "interviewing old guys and drawing their airplanes" has grown to the point wher...

  The world is a noisy place for superlatives - "awesome," "amazing," "OMG." The world is also prescribed with...

Interviews with George are in a few of my journals/stack-of-yellow-legal-pads. And my obligatory pencil sketch to get my brain engaged... Tr...

  Finished — the Bell P-39Q as flown by BG Clarence "Bud" Anderson. And, a 2024 salute for all! But before that... *break break* T...

  CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO ME! Thanks to our full-house of guests for letting me "go into my hole" to work on the P-39Q.  (See previou...

  Ever wonder what it means for someone/thing to be "great"? Around where I live, "great" has some cultural implications...

  Coming along! I figure this will be the last post until Michael O’Neil’s AH-1G Cobra is finished (and his Distinguished Flying Cross missi...

  Unmistakable. Un-freaking-mistakable. Behold — the work-in-progress of a Bell AH-1G "Cobra" attack helicopter, c. May 1970.  I...