Setting aside my usual nature photography for today. I present to you a few Canadian stamps issued in 1980, and 1981. Don’t you just love airplanes! These stamps were created from paintings by artist Robert William Bradford. He was commissioned by the Canadian aviation museum to paint several, 18 in total, historically significant depictions of aircraft and events. The Hawker hurricane itself is not a Canadian designed aircraft, but a British plane that went into production in the 1930’s. That being said, some were produced in Canada as well. Of course, this plane was used during world war 2, and especially played an important role in the battle of Brittain. That’s a long time ago eh?
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Did Hurricane Hannah drive the Hawker Hurricane
No, he just flies motocross..
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Since shooting the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds in their practice, I want to shoot as much aviation I can, I even dropped the wife off at the airport a few weeks back and snapped some of the aircraft coming into the airport. Pretty fun and I keep thinking of all the air shows coming up, I might just have to do them. I like these posts, I like the old school planes and at my local airport I keep seeing them fly and I captured some of those as well, eventually I'll get to them and share, just trying to get more before I do. I'd say if anyone is interested in shooting the older planes, do that asap because a lot of them that fly, them are getting older etc, so at some point you wont see them in the air anymore.
Exactly, was reading a story yesterday about a world war 2 era plane that crashed. Eventually they will disappear, and the museum will be the only place left to see them. Thanks for the visit, and happy flying, I mean snapping.
Awwww... The fabulous Hurricane that had to withstand the greatest weight of the Battle of Britain until the first Spitfires began to fly!... Great fighter plane, full of history!... I didn't know that some had also made in Canada, excellent information, thank you @daveks friends, beautiful postage stamps...
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I didn't realize that either, until doing a bit of research on it for this post.
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That's a very old stamp, very interesting friend
Indeed interesting, thanks.
I've never seen stamps with planes on them before. Those originals are so colorful and pretty.
Aren't they cool! Glad you liked them.
I definitely love the detailed depictions of the aircraft on these stamps. Especially the image of Tiger Moth
Yeah, that's a nice one. Could imagine someone wing walking on that.
Wow, this is a really extraordinary painting,Of course not many people can do paintings like this.
I'm definitely interested in Andra's black and white photography, friend.
That artist is really very talented. Unfortunately he passed away last year.
These are actully really cool looking!
Something a bit different for a change!
The beauties.
The stamps are still in use officially?
Yes, these stamps are useable even today!
They are kind of cool.
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My dad loved the old planes. He could name them all.
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I love your stamps! The Hurricane Hawker is a pretty cool one, they were used extensively in WWII. I love planes too, you should share more stamps and coins. Of course I'm biased towards coins, I love them too!
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