Well, this is the last of the aviation sketches that were drawn in the past. I've pretty much cleared out my flat files of sketches that pertain to aircraft and I doubt seriously if there are anymore, but this colored sketch is one that I have no idea where it was sketched. It was torn out from a sketchbook and had no signature or date to it, originally.
I did a little investigative work to find out what kind of aircraft this is, but I never was able to definitively put a finger on it. The engine cowling looks like something from a Fairchild or DeHavilland design, but the tail section is from neither companies. It looks like the cockpit was an add-on because all the photos of planes from what seems to be this period, are open cockpit like the Ryan PT-22. Obviously, because it was in yellow, I assume it was a pre-WWII trainer of some sort, but there's nothing else about the sketch that helps define its origin or use.
Okay, so it is just a nice colored sketch that I just can't throw away!
Oh yes, and I must have added the Cessna later for design reasons because I'm not that fast a draftsman to catch an aircraft mid flight, ha!
Copyright 2012/ Ben Bensen III
