Today I am remembering National Vietnam Veteran's Day with a cowling that I painted for my Dad and his unit, the 366th TFW "The Gunfighters" in Da Nang, and after I finished the "Rosie's Reply" project at the Yankee Air Museum last week, ventured over to the museum itself to check out their 366th TRW … Continue reading National Vietnam Veterans Day
This is an adoption kit that I designed for the Military Aviation Museum's SBD featuring a custom patch with their Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless above the USS Wolverine in Lake Michigan, a spec sheet with a new illustration that I created of an SBD on the dive bomb run, and an adoption certificate in a vintage … Continue reading Military Aviation Museum’s Adopt-a-Plane SBD kit available now!
Here is a Daily Telegraph article on my recent B-25 nose art project for the Yankee Air Museum. Click here to read the article.
This is a new logo that I designed to honor the legacy of the late Ron Alexander and his work with youth at the Candler Field Museum, which will now focus solely on the Youth Aviation Program that Ron had started. Click here to read more about it on Warbird Digest.
Here is a Warbird Digest article on the nose art that I recently completed for the Yankee Air Museum on their combat veteran B-25. They asked for a Rosie the Riveter theme to honor the home front in WWII since their B-25 while serving briefly in the 340th Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Squadron, it did … Continue reading Warbird Digest covers Yankee Air Museum B-25D “Rosie’s Reply”
This is a new ad that I designed for Hop Up Magazine for Stewart Warner's Aviator gauges, which I also designed. Lots of companies have come out with aircraft inspired gauges, but they usually look too modern or not quite right. Since I am so passionate about WWII aviation, this was pretty important to get … Continue reading Stewart Warner Aviator Gauges
Sat, Mar 27, 2021 12:00 PM - 3:00 P CDT During World War II, from the autumn of 1942 through late 1945, the United States Navy conducted aircraft carrier qualification on Lake Michigan off of Chicago. The area had been selected to provide a safe area away from possible enemy submarine attack. As a result … Continue reading The Rescue of the Once Lost World War II Navy Aircraft from Lake Michigan
I have been working with the Military Aviation Museum on their newest project, an SBD Dauntless that was recovered from Lake Michigan in 1994. It crashed in a training accident attempting to land on the USS Wolverine having departed from it's base at NAS Glenview. Since the recovery, it has been at the US Navy … Continue reading Military Aviation Museum’s SBD Dauntless Project
Here's a photo of the Military Aviation Museum SBD Dauntless with the exhibit graphics panels that I designed telling the story of the SBD history, training on the USS Wolverine in Lake Michigan and of the recovery when it was pulled out of the Lake in 1994. The 4 panels are 48" x 36", mounted … Continue reading Military Aviaton Museum’s Douglas SBD
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