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Malta - George Cross by Robert Taylor. (FLY) - Aviation Art Prints
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Malta - George Cross by Robert Taylor. (FLY)


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Malta - George Cross by Robert Taylor. (FLY)

Pilot Officer John Bisley of 126 Squadron in combat with Me 109s from JG-53 during one of the intense aerial air battles over Valetta in April 1942. Between the summer of 1940 and the end of 1942, Malta became one of the most bombed places on earth. The RAFs desperate fight to retain control of the diminutive Mediterranean island, and the defiant courage of the people of Malta, is one of the epic stories of World War Two.


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Item Code : RT0003FLYMalta - George Cross by Robert Taylor. (FLY) - This EditionAdd any two items on this offer to your basket, and the lower priced item will be half price in the checkout! Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price!
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Other editions of this item : Malta - George Cross by Robert Taylor.RT0003
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PRINT Malta Edition of 250 prints.

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Image size 27 inches x 16 inches (69cm x 41cm) Overall size 33 inches x 24 inches (84cm x 64cm) Evans, Ken
MacLennan, Ian
Parkinson, Colin
Rae, Jack
Roscoe, Arthur
Scott, Allan
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £310
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Malta Edition of 25 Artist Proofs.

SOLD. A long sold out edition, we have just one copy of the Artist Proof edition. The print is in excellent condition except for one area - the bottom half of the left hand border of the print is slightly warped. i.e. the paper has an undulating pattern in the paper, with the 'wave' running up from the bottom border to half way up the print, in the area from the left hand edge of the print to the inner edge of the left border - so it barely touches the image itself. It is number 3 of 25 of the edition. No companion prints are supplied with it.
Image size 27 inches x 16 inches (69cm x 41cm) Overall size 33 inches x 24 inches (84cm x 64cm) Evans, Ken
MacLennan, Ian
Parkinson, Colin
Rae, Jack
Roscoe, Arthur
Scott, Allan
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £310
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PRINT Malta Edition of 250 prints with companion print.

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Image size 27 inches x 16 inches (69cm x 41cm) Overall size 33 inches x 24 inches (84cm x 64cm) Crosley, Mike (companion print)
Evans, Ken
Drake, Billy (companion print)
Twiss, Peter (companion print)
MacLennan, Ian
Parkinson, Colin
Rae, Jack
Roscoe, Arthur
Scott, Allan
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £450
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PRINTSpitfire edition of 300 prints.

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Image size 27 inches x 16 inches (69cm x 41cm) Overall size 33 inches x 24 inches (84cm x 64cm) Evans, Ken
MacLennan, Ian
Parkinson, Colin
Rae, Jack
Roscoe, Arthur
Scott, Allan
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £310
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SpitfireRoyal Air Force fighter aircraft, maximum speed for mark I Supermarine Spitfire, 362mph up to The Seafire 47 with a top speed of 452mph. maximum ceiling for Mk I 34,000feet up to 44,500 for the mark XIV. Maximum range for MK I 575 miles . up to 1475 miles for the Seafire 47. Armament for the various Marks of Spitfire. for MK I, and II . eight fixed .303 browning Machine guns, for MKs V-IX and XVI two 20mm Hispano cannons and four .303 browning machine guns. and on later Marks, six to eight Rockets under the wings or a maximum bomb load of 1,000 lbs. Designed by R J Mitchell, The proto type Spitfire first flew on the 5th March 1936. and entered service with the Royal Air Force in August 1938, with 19 squadron based and RAF Duxford. by the outbreak of World war two, there were twelve squadrons with a total of 187 spitfires, with another 83 in store. Between 1939 and 1945, a large variety of modifications and developments produced a variety of MK,s from I to XVI. The mark II came into service in late 1940, and in March 1941, the Mk,V came into service. To counter the Improvements in fighters of the Luftwaffe especially the FW190, the MK,XII was introduced with its Griffin engine. The Fleet Air Arm used the Mk,I and II and were named Seafires. By the end of production in 1948 a total of 20,351 spitfires had been made and 2408 Seafires. The most produced variant was the Spitfire Mark V, with a total of 6479 spitfires produced. The Royal Air Force kept Spitfires in front line use until April 1954.
Me109Willy Messerschmitt designed the BF109 during the early 1930s. The Bf109 was one of the first all metal monocoque construction fighters with a closed canopy and retractable undercarriage. The engine of the Me109 was a V12 aero engine which was liquid-cooled. The Bf109 first saw operational service during the Spanish Civil War and flew to the end of World War II, during which time it was the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter squadrons. During the Battle of Britian the Bf109 was used in the role of an escort fighter, a role for which it was not designed for, and it was also used as a fighter bomber. During the last days of May 1940 Robert Stanford-Tuck, the RAF ace, got the chance to fly an Me109 which they had rebuilt after it had crash landed. Stanford-Tuck found out that the Me109 was a wonderful little plane, it was slightly faster than the Spitfire, but lacked the Spitfire manoeuvrability. By testing the Me109, Tuck could put himself inside the Me109 when fighting them, knowing its weak and strong points. With the introduction of the improved Bf109F in the spring of 1941, the type again proved to be an effective fighter during the invasion of Yugoslavia and during the Battle of Crete and the invasion of Russia and it was used during the Siege of the Mediteranean island of Malta. The Bf109 was the main fighter for the Luftwaffe until 1942 when the Fw190 entered service and shared this position, and was partially replaced in Western Europe, but the Me109 continued to serve on the Eastern Front and during the defence of the Reich against the allied bombers. It was also used to good effect in the Mediterranean and North Africa in support of The Africa Korps. The Me109 was also supplied to several German allies, including Finland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Slovakia. The Bf109 scored more kills than any other fighter of any country during the war and was built in greater numbers with a total of over 31,000 aircraft being built. The Bf109 was flown by the three top German aces of the war war. Erich Hartmann with 352 victories, Gerhard Barkhorn with 301 victories and Gunther Rall with 275 kills. Bf109 pilots were credited with the destruction of 100 or more enemy aircraft. Thirteen Luftwaffe Aces scored more than 200 kills. Altogether this group of pilots were credited with a total of nearly 15,000 kills, of which the Messerschmitt Bf109 was credited with over 10,000 of these victories. The Bf109 was the most produced warplane during World War II, with 30,573 examples built during the war, and the most produced fighter aircraft in history, with a total of 33,984 units produced up to April 1945. Bf109s remained in foreign service for many years after World War II. The Swiss used their Bf109Gs well into the 1950s. The Finnish Air Force did not retire their Bf109Gs until March 1954. Romania used its Bf109s until 1955. The Spanish Hispanos flew even longer. Some were still in service in the late 1960s.

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