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Keith is a Manchester born retired civil engineer who has been painting aviation subjects for the past twenty years. He is entirly self taught and his style is characterised by precise detail and technical accuracy which he feels is a result of his engineering training. After retiring from full time employment with Kent County Coucil Keith moved to Lincolnshire in April 1998 in the hope of finding a wider market for his work, and the move has proved to be successful. He is an Associate Member of the Guild of Aviation Artists and regularly exhibits work at the Guilds Annual Open Exhibition in London. In addition he has completed over a hundred commissions for private clients in England and abroad including RAF and American Eighth Air Force associations. Many of his painting are currently in print and his work is on the covers of a number of books recently published in France, the United States and the UK. Sadly, Keith Aspinall died in 2007.
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Early Morning Sortie by Keith Aspinall. A flight of RAF Spitfires fly low over fields over occupied France, and are shown in their D-Day stripes. |
Desert Thunder by Keith Aspinall. The Rockwell B-1 Lancer. In the early 1990s, following the Gulf War and concurrent with the disestablishment of SAC and its reassignment to the newly formed Air Combat Command (ACC), the B-1B was converted to conventional bombing use. It first served in combat during Operation Desert Fox in 1998 and again during the NATO action in Kosovo the following year. The B-1B has supported U.S. and NATO military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The B-1B is expected to continue to serve into the 2030s, with the Long Range Strike Bomber to start supplementing the B-1B in 2030. |
Lightning Strike by Keith Aspinall. No text for this item |
Lull Before the Storm by Keith Aspinall. The Tempest of Wing Commander Roland Beamont DSO and Bar DFC and Bar, June 1944. |
Falklands Bomber by Keith Aspinall. The Vulcan B2 takes off from Ascension Island to play a major role in Operation Corporate, the name given to the British military operation to retake the Falkland Islands. The Vulcan would take part in the seven planned bombing missions during the Falklands campaign codenamed Operation Black Buck. Each mission would require a solo Vulcan Bomber (plus an airborne reserve Vulcan in case of problems with the first) to fly and bomb the Argentinean airfield at Port Stanley, requiring the support of 12 Handley Page Victor K2 tankers of 55 and 57 squadron on the outward journey and 2 Victors and a Nimrod on the return journey. |
Stirling Mine Laying by Keith Aspinall. Stirling Q-OJ of No.149 Sqn is shown minelaying in the Batlic. It was on precisely this type of mission - minelaying in the Baltic that aircraft W7639 (shown) was lost on 8th December 1942. Developing technical problems, the aircraft turned for home, but crashed in Suffolk, killing all seven crew on board. The crew were : P/O J Philp BEM, Sgt W S Hughes, Sgt G E Hills, Sgt C W Higgins, Sgt F Craven, Sgt T H Harris, and Sgt T G Williams. |
The Forgotten V Bomber by Keith Aspinall. The Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant was a British four-jet high-altitude bomber, once part of the Royal Air Force's V bomber nuclear force in the 1950s and 1960s. The Valiant was the first of the V bombers to become operational, and was followed by the Handley Page Victor and the Avro Vulcan; it was noticeably less advanced than its counterparts. The Valiant has the distinction of being the only V bomber to drop live nuclear weapons. |
Help for the Straggler by Keith Aspinall. P-51 Mustangs come to the aid of a damaged and struggling B-24 Liberator as Luftwaffe fighters make an attack. |
Bombers by Keith Aspinall. Lancaster, Halifax, Stirling and Mosquito of Bomber Command. |
Arrowhead by Keith Aspinall. The Red Arrows perform one of their signature formations. |
End of a Long Night by Keith Aspinall. A single Avro Lancaster bomber crosses the coast at low level inbound after yet another bombing raid on Nazi held Europe. A superb painting and a great tribute to the crews of tThe Lancaster bomber squadrons. |
Korean Combat by Keith Aspinall. On 9th August 1952, over North Korea, Commander Peter Carmichael of 802 Squadron R.N. in a Sea Fury became the first British pilot of a piston-engined aircraft to shoot down a MiG-15. |
The Ultimate Deterrent by Keith Aspinall. The British V-bombers of the nuclear age - Vulcan, Valiant and Victor. |
Wimpey Wonderland by Keith Aspinall. Returning from a night mission, two Wellington bombers return over the snow covered fields of England. A fitting tribute to the air crews of the Wellington squadrons of World War Two. |
Cold War Intercept by Keith Aspinall. Lightnings of No.11 Sqn intercept a Soviet Bear over the North Sea |
Climbing Out by Keith Aspinall. A flight of Lancaster bombers from a Bomber Command squadron climb away from the British coastline on yet another bombing raid on Nazi held Europe. A superb painting and a great tribute to the crews of the Lancaster bomber squadrons. |
Fighting Falcons by Keith Aspinall F16Cs of the 52nd Fighter Wing and the 31st Fighter Wing in action over the Balkans. |
Safely Home by Keith Aspinall. Returning safely form a bombing raid, a Lancaster is coming into land on a snow covered airfield. In the distance another Lancaster of the squadron also lines up for landing. A fitting tribute to all the crews of Bomber Command and in particular to the men of the Lancaster squadrons. |
Here Comes Another One, Skipper by Keith Aspinall. Lancasters of No.15 Squadron come under attack from night fighters as they return from another mission. |
Predator by Keith Aspinall. Part of the RAF Bomber offensive of night time raids over Germany, a Lancaster squadron not only dodge the German flak and searchlights but are also attacked by German night fighters. An Fw190 is shown about to attack a Lancaster bomber. |
Testing Time by Keith Aspinall. A TSR2 deploys its parachute while a Lightning flies by. Test pilot Roland Beamont finally made the first flight from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, on 27th September 1964. Initial flight tests were all performed with the undercarriage down and engine power strictly controlled - with limits of 250 kn and 10,000 ft on the first (15-minute) flight. Shortly after take off on XR219's second flight, vibration from a fuel pump at the resonant frequency of the human eyeball caused the pilot to throttle back one engine to avoid momentary loss of vision. Only on the 10th test flight was the landing gear successfully retracted - problems preventing this on previous occasions, but serious vibration problems on landing persisted throughout the flight testing programme. The first supersonic test flight (Flight 14) was achieved on the transfer from A&AEE, Boscombe Down, to BAC Warton. During the flight, the aircraft achieved Mach 1 on dry power only (supercruise). Following this, Beamont lit a single reheat unit only (because of problems with the other engine's reheat fuel pump), with the result that the aircraft accelerated away from the chase Lightning flown by Wing Commander James 'Jimmy' Dell, who had to catch up using reheat on both engines. On flying the TSR-2 himself, Dell described the prototype as handling 'like a big Lightning'. Over a period of six months, a total of 24 test flights were conducted. |
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