Aircraft Paintings of C. Rupert Moore, A.R.C.A
Aircraft Paintings of C. Rupert Moore, A.R.C.A. with an intro, by O. G. Thetford.
Published
by Harborough Publishing Co, Ltd.
The Aeromodeller Plans Service
Ltd. & The Pallas Publishing Co, Ltd.
oversized hardcover 9" x
12". "present
war" and D-Day, published around late 1945. It
contains 16 large colour prints from aircraft paintings by, C.Rupert Moore,
A.R.C.A.
The book also contains a 12 page biography of C. Rupert Moore, A.R.C.A., with Descriptive Notes on each painting.
This book has an inset applique colour plate on the front cover. Note I have now seen six front covers for this book so far, I wonder how many more versions are around. All are also used on covers of Aero Modeller Magazines.
The subject of the paintings are,
BE2C
of WW1,
A Dog-Fight between Bristol F2Bs and Fokker Triplanes,
The Westland Wizard of the late 1920,
The Schneider Trophy Supermarine S6B,
Hawker Fury Biplanes in formation aerobatics,
Heinkel He51 Luftwaffe Biplane Fighters,
Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stösser Formation Training Flight,
Westland Widgeon III,
Short Scion small Airliner,
Spitfires intercepting Fw190s over the south coast of
Hawker Typhoon Fighter Bombers with D-Day Invasion Markings,
Bristol Blenheim IVs taking off from a winter airfield,
Halifax bombers over Germany,
Vickers Vildebeeste Torpedo Bomber,
Fairey Barracudas attacking the Tirpitz,
Airspeed Horsa Assault Gliders on their way to a Battle.
C. Rupert Moore, also patented "The Moore Drive" Patent No 512974 a twin drive system for rubber powered model aircraft in 1938.
A
jig-saw
TRD575822 available from the Royal Aeronautical
Society
This key moment in the development of aviation is captured in a 1945 painting by C. Rupert Moore, A.R.C.A in the Royal Aeronautical Society Library's art collections.
A
deluxe 250-piece wooden jigsaw of this
painting is available for via Royal
Air Force Benevolent Fund Enterprises
Found under, Giftware, models, puzzles&toys.
The
income which the Royal Aeronautical Society receives from the sales of the jigsaw
will be used towards the conservation of historic aviation material in the
Society's Library.
C. Rupert Moore, produced paintings, for magazine covers (Aeromodeller), and line drawings for MAP
