Arranging photos in a traditional album is quite a chore; pasting each picture into the right spot requires time, patience, a calm mind, and a suitable workspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Storing photos on a computer, tablet, or smartphone is far easier and faster; yet, all too often\u2014when one wishes to view a specific image\u2014one struggles simply to find it in the first place. In the worst-case scenario, the image cannot be found at all because it has been accidentally deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For those among us whose deep passion or hobby revolves primarily around visual experience and observation, there are few alternatives for keeping an image always close at hand\u2014fully in keeping with that decades-old tradition of knowing that a portrait of a beloved being, or any other object of passion whose frequent sight brings joy, is always within immediate reach, without having to rummage through shelves or sift through digital image files on modern systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After careful consideration, I have decided to publish the complete body of work I have amassed over the course of more than 45 years\u2014a collection that, I am certain, will delight many people who share my very particular “weakness” and passion. I am referring here to those famous postcards depicting an airline’s fleet in flight\u2014keepsakes that, “in the old days,” airlines would give to their passengers as mementos of their journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the material I present here consists of illustrations I created myself; these are neither photographs nor analog images, but simply drawings\u2014works made possible only by the extensive archive of reference material I have gathered between 1960 and the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, my area of \u200b\u200bspecialization focuses primarily on the era spanning from the DC-3 to the DC-10, as well as on all piston-engine aircraft of that epoch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n