Aviation Art - Air War 1914-1918

[pilotmountain1]

Thanks for the posting! Such beautiful flying machines and the paintings are gorgeous as well. Well done!

[PowerBodhranArts]

Nicely produced! This is truly a worth-while video, unlike so much of the gunk on YouTube today. Thank you for putting it together!

[vgcsbano]

Really great. So many of these images were created for model airplane kits. I remember so many of them so vividly.Is there anywhere you can acquire some of these images.

[bestjonbon]

Hi vgcsbano. Yes, I can send some of them to you. I'm going to Houston for the weekend, but send me your email address to my channel notes and I'll forward them to you when I get back,

Cheers, John

[dp500cat]

@carlosbrusa - the artist is Mark W Miller....he has a website (just google his name) with plenty of examples of his 3D cadcam work

[silvialucianunes]

Wonderful work.Congratulations!

5*****

[feraltweed]

Nice collection! I am making some ww1 planes and observation balloons

out of metal in small scale with the intention of making a stop motion movie.

The colorfull paint jobs on some of those old planes are inspiring!

[carlosbrusa]

Wich artista painted the Albatros in 4:49?

[bestjonbon]

Sorry, carlosbrusa. I've long since forgotten the answer to your question. Apologies.

[heatnzl]

@carlosbrusa Hi. It a still from a flight simulation called "Wings of War."

[jonanjello]

Excellent selection for your slideshow. Thanks for sharing!

Oh, one more thing. What's the music?

[meatisdeliciouse]

Whats the name of the first plane in the video, it look cool?

[bestjonbon]

Hi, meatisdeliciouse. That's a Bleriot.

[meatisdeliciouse]

@bestjonbon Thank you, it looks likje something out of some sort of 50's adventure sci fi film, doesnt it?

[meatisdeliciouse]

Did the piolets have parichutes?

[BigMek456]

@meatisdeliciouse in ww1? only zepelin pilots.

[meatisdeliciouse]

Some of these planes are absoloutely AWESOME, I love the ones made of lots of cables, the look so classy.

[meatisdeliciouse]

I hope some of these planes survied, especial the older looking ones made from lots of strings, they look like something out of an adventure film from the 50's

[50zcarsman]

WTF was that at 5:30 -- a beast-man of some sort trying to climb into a cockpit, and confronted by the crewman with a pistol in the face? Not to mention they're about to be rammed by a friendly a/c at 12 o'clock level. A trashy pulp mag illustr., I presume?

[bestjonbon]

Hi, 50zcarsman. Yep, from the pulps. But it's still art (of a fashion). I did a vid on pulp aviation as well. It's called "Lost Art of the Pulps - World War I Aviation."

Cheers, John

[mrclaytonio]

this is a great vid but slow the picture ghanging down its hard to see the details in them

[colorconnection]

lol, forget the swastika, what's up with one right afterwards?

[fazail00007]

best pic at 4:38

[limegr33nlime]

Some of these are very nice, thank you for uploading.

[Basilisk195]

The reason of the existence of the Swastika at 5:27 is .... this picture shows no WW 1 a/c but an Gloster Gladiator, attacking a German WW 2 assault glider DFS 230. Also the a/c at 2:24, 4:20 and 5:14 dates from the 1930s. Notice: not every a/c with two wings dates from WW 1 ;o)

[MobiusDragon89]

2:40. That's one of our Caproni bombers flying over Venice?

3:07. What's that plane doing? Dropping water or inflammable liquid?

Would have loved to see more pics of Italian planes. I have only one pic and a couple (if not more) of actual photos.

[MobiusDragon89]

@MobiusDragon89 I meant 2:36 for the Caproni, sorry.

[coingod]

Why is there a swastika in 5:27?

[bestjonbon]

That was some poor misguided pulp magazine illustrator who didn't know the difference, I fear.

[Wikingersohn93]

@bestjonbon

The reason is, that this is actually a ww2 picture.

All of the planes ar no ww1 productions.

If you look at the plane in the background you'll see it best.

(It's a He 111 I guess)

[bestjonbon]

@Wikingersohn93 Yes, and that's a German glider with the swastika. I looked at it upside down, and it came out clearly. Thanks, John

[ichmalealsobinich]

You're right. It's a DFS-130 glider which is attacked by gloster Gladiators. A scenary of the airborne landing of Creta 1941, I assume.

[MIT1369]

@coingod Because that's a scene from WWII. Notice the German plane in the upper left corner. A low winged twin engine monoplane with retracted langing gear. Possibly a JU88 medium bomber but I can't see it well enough to be 100%. Also the stricken aircraft is a WWII german glider.

[coingod]

@MIT1369 OH, i see it. You are right. Well spoted.

[50zcarsman]

@MIT1369 The engines look to me like those Junkers Jumos with the back-set oil cooler; also a little more triangular vertical tailplane, vice rounded. He-111 on both counts, then, but both "features" could be artistic license by the illustrator.

[Yodan82]

@coingod That german plane is a dfs230 glider. It did not fly during 1914-1918, but during ww2.

[ColaWhiski]

@coingod ... however, there were also machines during the II world war which carried (by chance) this symbol, indeed, in the body and not in the side oar.

warbirds-power.de

[MarcMaier1]

@coingod i think its ww2

[deino117]

@coingod Yeah, that was weird. Looked like an Me Gigant or two being shot down. The Poles used some biplanes in WWII - very effectively - against the Luftwaffe, but I don't think the scene depicted here ever came close to happening!

Maybe this was an illustration for some kind of speculative fiction involving time travel...?

[hangman1958]

Very Nice.....Thank You For This.

[bestjonbon]

It was my pleasure...

[Mr2wings]

How can I download the sounds of the engines starting up!

[bestjonbon]

Copy them from this video, or look them up on the Internet under sound effects (that's what I did)...

[datzfast]

is there any demand for these paintings i would like to paint some.

[bestjonbon]

Yes, some sell for huge prices! Aviation fans, veterans, world war 1 and II buffs, all collectors.

[Amaranteification]

It's not veryfull, because Santo Dumont creat the air plane to transport, but the damn germani used to war. It's my opinion, i like of airplane to war and commercial, but war not is veryfull.

[bestjonbon]

The Germans and Allies sort of jointly drifted into using the plane as a weapon. I'll try to do an art video soon showing how the drift occurred.

Cheers, John

[angryace13]

yep, first aircraft where used for servalence, then we started making planes to shoot down those planes, and soon enough they where fighting agents eachother, then we made more aircraft larger for bombing to.

[ecaredit]

The first to use airplanes in a war were Italians with Bleriots and Nieuport monoplanes during the Libyan war of 1911-12

[aeroart]

Nice video, but are you aware that it is a violation of copyright laws to use these images without the artists' permission?

[bestjonbon]

Yes, and I usually try to get them, though I missed several when I first started doing these vids. Many of the artists are very kind about brief two-second exposures. Thanks for the input. Cheers, John

[sylwesterp]

2008 Red Baron is a Great movie i would recomend it to everyone that stil envys the heroes of that era

[bestjonbon]

Yes, I enjoy all WW I air movies. Red Baron was a good one.

[P214Stearman]

At the Begining i hear alot of warbird from WW2 xD ^^ like Mustang and Spitfire :P

[bestjonbon]

Yes, I had a hard time finding good flyboy sound tracks from World War I. (I knew someone would eventually recognize those modern engines, but you were the first.) Heh, heh. Thanks, John

[Boelcke1916]

This reminds me of the 2008 DER ROTE BARON (RED BARON) movie put out by the Germans. That is a fine movie. I have seen it 11 times and enjoyed it every time.

[bestjonbon]

Yes, I like the Red Baron, too, and read every book I can find on him and on other World War I knights of the air. They were great pioneers of aviation!

[SSKID65]

Awesome vid! Fantastic pics! 5*s Thanks for posting!

[bestjonbon]

You are very welcome, my friend!

[bestjonbon]

Thanks!

[bestjonbon]

Yes, and the first ones to do so shot off their propellers. Heh, heh. Someone had to invent the interrupter before things got hot.

[madcapromanian]

I love all the colours they used in these days. Moern aircraft aren't as "Personal" as the WW1 stuff was. Truely, these are the Knights of the Air.

[bestjonbon]

I absolutely agree!

[Ibinausminga]

Schelm ! Hast bei 5:28 einen kleinen Fehler eingebaut um zu testen, ob die Zuschauer auch alle Bilder angucken, gell ?

Wünsche Dir einen guten Rutsch in´s Neue.

[7511232]

5:28 WWII

[bestjonbon]

I'd love to say I put that there to see who was watching all the way, but the truth is, I blew it. I pulled that off an old pulp magazine and let the biplane catch my eye (I missed the swastika altogether). Good eye, 7511232!

Cheers, John

[7511232]

Ha Ha World War II have biplane (Gladiator) You can seach it .

[ichmalealsobinich]

the most paintings are well known illustrations of box arts from model kits or reference books.

[bestjonbon]

Yes, war art appears in many places, including Model-making boxes.  Lucky, aren't we? Thanks.

[sternberg1]

this is amzing vvork and paintings!5*

[GuerreroOrdaz]

Hey man I like your videos...awesome! pretty good pics & soundtrack