There are 13 prints in a collection painted for McDonnel Douglas aviation Australia in 1987.
Only 500 sets were printed.
The sheet size is 430mm x 550mm, with edges 40mm and 50mm within that size; the paintings are within those bounds.
The subjects are:
- Airborne
- Duigan’s first flight in an Australian designed and built aircraft, 7 October 1910.
- Morning Encounter
- Lt. A.H. Cobby attacking a Fokker triplane, 21 March 1918.
- Winning Smiles
- The arrival of Captain Ross Smith in the Vickers Vimy, Darwin, 10 December 1919.
- Piece by piece
- Loading a piece of mining machinery into a Junkers G31, Papua New Guinea.
- Great White
- Qantas Empire Airways flying boat VH-ABF, Cooee, at Rose Bay, 1938.
- Predator
- First RAAF victory over Darwin, 23 November 1942, Sqn Ldr R.C. Cresswell, 77 Sqn, shooting down a Japanese G4M1 bomber.
- Doing the Job
- Radio operator and navigator in a RAAF Lancaster.
- Flying Doctor
- A flying doctor with indigenous patients, and DH84 Dragon VH-URE.
- Sea-birds
- Deck launch of a Skyhawk from HMAS Melbourne.
- Classic
- Bush Pilots Airways DC-3 over Weipa.
- Crowd Pleaser
- The arrival of the first McDonnell Douglas DC-9 for Ansett-ANA, Essendon, 23 April 1967.
- Antarctic Workhorse
- An Aerospatiale Squirrel with slung load at Larsemann Hills in 1987.
- Express Delivery
- The first two RAAF F/A-18s on delivery flight refuelling mid-Pacific from a McDonnell Douglas KC-10 tanker.
The prints are in a cardboard holder printed for the set.
A booklet with background information is with the collection.
NOTE:
Three prints are missing:
- One showing The Southern Cross departing Suva;
- One showing EATS trainee pilots and Tiger Moths;
- One showing Beauforts on the assembly line.
These will be sold in one batch, price $660.00.
Postage or delivery within Australia is free.
Delivery firm will be Australia Post or other, as desired by purchaser.
