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I fooled the Boeing guys into hanging 6 prints of my paintings in an big executive complex. The largest, 5 X 6 feet is posted here. Entitled , " On The Downwind At Newark," it shows the arrival of Jack Frye and Eddie Rickenbacker in the DOUGLAS DC1 after flying across the U.S. in 1933 with the last sack of civil contract airmail.
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Very nice, 5 x 6 feet, Wow!

More please.

 

This one is only 3 X 4 feet, another DOUGLAS DC, "DC-3 Night Bird". Actually a DST.
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The first attempt to paint aviation subjects was this DH 4. Entitled , " Sucker Hole", Based on an incident that my wife and I encountered flying back from Merced Antique fly-in, 1970
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Very nice work Bob!! Do you also paint Boeing aircraft

 

This is a Ryan M-1 taking off from a field perhaps in Oregon in 1926. " Pacific Air Transport" shows the airplane from which the "Spirit of St. Louis" was derived. One of my early attempts with water color, around 1972.
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Finally a Boeing! The model 247 over the Rockies. The airplane that was knocked out of contention by the Douglas DC series.
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The last one is the Curtiss JN4 flying near Mt Hood. This airplane, the NUMBER ONE JN4D, resides in a museum at Hood River. " Jenny and The Hood." All prints but the DC-1 are 3 X 4 feet in size.
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Fantastic... would have to be to get Boeing to hang their competitors planes.

You buy paint by the gallon, it seems, Bob. Huge.


I've always wondered about the 'reverse rake' of the windshield of the Boeing 247. The thought behind it. Was it less drag than a raked windshield?

 

Thanks. These are the results of the marvels of digital printing on canvas, the actual paintings were 24 X 30 inches with the exception of the Jenny, that was 3 X 4 feet.They thought that the reverse slant in the windshield was a lower drag configuration but all it did was grow a huge eyebrow of ice in bad weather. The subjects for the Boeing display were chosen for the most part by the secretaries. The facilities person passed my portfolio around to the gals and they chose the works for color, drama, and what THEY liked. Oddly enough, Boeing is interconnected to all of the images except the Jenny.They purchased Pacific Air Transport ( Ryan image), Douglas, and rebuilt a bunch of DH4's for the government.

 

Don't want to detract from the comments on Bob's paintings, which are really cool, but

if you happen to be in the PNW and like airplanes and automobiles the noted museum is a must see.

http://www.waaamuseum.org/default.html

 

Always liked that painting....(at the time did not know the importance of the artist; silly me!).....and BTW: don't miss my old green Studebaker flatbed in a corner of the museum! They fly stuff from the museum pretty regularly too. Easy day trip from Portland, and even Seattle, but Hood River is pretty neat, so find a B&B and enjoy the area.

 

Mr. Parks, Thank you for posting these.

 

Thanks, I'll try to do some more soon.

 

I've seen that image of the DC-1; didn't know it was yours, Bob. Newark looks rather different today, doesn't it! Nice work, Bob.

 

Thank you, Jim. That painting was done for a magazine that is now out of print but there is some interesting facts about it especially when old pilots look at it and all of a sudden exclaim, " Hell! That's Newark!" I guess it is quite different now but Google still shows the slip in the background.