VC10 Tanker

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Tanker aircraft VC10 and Victor K2. Royal Air Force tankers refuelling Vulcan Bombers and Tornados in aviation art prints of VC10s and Victor K2 by Keith Woodcock and Michael Rondot. Available from the aviationprints.co.uk, a subsidiary of Cranston Fine Arts.

Atlantic Trail by Michael Rondot Ever wondered what it is like learning to tank? Imagine a fragile basket flailing six feet up and down at the end of a 50 foot hose as the tanker flexes its wings in turbulence. In your cockpit it feels like the throttles are connected to the engines with knicker elastic. To keep straight in the tanker's wingtip vortices you have applied right spoiler and a bootfull of rudder, whilst your death grip on the stick is inducing a violent porpoising motion. Over the radio a calm voice from the tanker clears you in, so with one engine in afterburner and with eyes like saucers you move forward to attempt a controlled mid-air collision. Welcome to the air-to-air refuelling club. In Michael Rondot's remarkably accurate portrayal of refuelling operations high over an Atlantic panorama, a Tornado moving forward to refuel makes contact with the basket trailed by a VC10 tanker. In these last critical moments the Tornado's probe can either move snugly into the centre of the basket and plug in, or rip through the spokes, sending a shower of debris into the engine intake. It is all a matter of skill, judgement, age and luck.

VC10 Ascension Island 1985 by Brian Mulholland. 

VC10 Ascension Island 1985 by Brian Mulholland.

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VC10 Ascension Island 1985 by Brian Mulholland.

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Special Offer Pack of All Four Prints Price : £400

Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson Price : £165

Operation Chastise - The Night They Broke the Dams by Ivan Berryman Price : £95

Third Time Lucky by Ivan Berryman Price : £110

The Dambusters by Simon Smith Price : £155

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Featured Artist - Ivan Berryman



Art and aviation have been like a brother and sister to me. We have grown up together, learned together and made our adult lives together. But you do not have to have an appreciation of aircraft to admire the graceful lines of a Spitfire or the functional simplicity of a Focke-Wulf 190. They are themselves a work of art and they cry out to be painted - not as machines of war and destruction, but as objects of beauty, born of necessity and function, yet given a life and iconic classicism beyond their original calling. My interest and love of art and aircraft was gifted to me by my father, a designer and aeronautical engineer of considerable repute. Denis Berryman C.Eng. FRAeS. He gave me his eyes, his passion, his dedication and his unwavering professionalism. I owe him everything. And I miss him terribly. A love of art and of beautiful and interesting things takes you on a journey. You discover new interests, new fascinations, and you want to paint them. You want to paint them in their environment, in their element. Whether it is an aeroplane, a warship, a racing car or a beautiful woman, their gift to an artist is the same: Their lines, their texture and the way that light and shadows give them form. These are the food and oxygen of an artist. Not the paint and the canvas. These are mere tools. The secret is in the passion and the perception.

Dambuster Discount Print Pack



Save £125 on this specially selected pack of Dambusters aviation art prints. All four prints for £400, giving collectors these prints at trade discounted prices!

This pack of aviation art prints includes 4 separate prints, at a highly discounted price when purchased in this special pack. The prints included in the pack are :

Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson,
Operation Chastise - The Night They Broke the Dams by Ivan Berryman,
Third Time Lucky by Ivan Berryman
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The Dambusters by Simon Smith.

In all, the prints have 10 different signatures (13 in total) of pilots and aircrew of the Dambusters raid.

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