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RICH THISTLE STUDIO - Aviation Articles Index

Aviation articles by Rich Thistle © explain the history in his aircraft paintings. Many have been published in Canadian and American magazines. Please enjoy reading them and be aware they are protected by Canadian copyright law and may not be copied, published altered, used by or linked from any other site without permission from the artist. Rich is generally happy to oblige if asked nicely and if appropriate credit is given along with a link back to www.richthistle.com.

  1. "Rich Thistle - Canadian Aviation Artist" Rich talks about his career and his art

  2. "We Flew with the Heroic Few" Canada's role in WW2

  3. "Beaver Meadow" a tribute to the great Beaver aircraft and other Canadian bush planes

  4. "Tough & Ready; The Memphis Belle" the B-17 Flying Fortress

  5. "Bob's Swordfish" history of the Fairey Swordfish and the one restored and flying in Canada

  6. "Hornets Over the Gulf" a tribute to Canadians and the CF-18 Hornet...Persian Gulf War

  7. "Final Victory" the story of legendary WW1 German ace, Manfred von Richthofen

  8. "Dieppe Dawn" a tribute to Canadian W/C Lloyd V.Chadburn, DSO & Bar, DFC

  9. "Beacons of Liberty" Rich's account of his 1995 trip to Jersey in the Channel Islands, with three Canadian 442 Squadron pilots who flew top cover in their Mustangs two days after the official end of hostilities in WW2 Europe to liberate the islands

  10. "Pursuit of the Luciana" true story of a CAF 415 Squadron Aurora out of CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia and its role in a drug interdiction mission

  11. "442 Scramble; Beny Sur Mer" a tribute to RCAF fighter squadrons and the Spitfire pilot who inspired Rich to paint this image, F/O Len Wilson, 442 Squadron

  12. "Into the Blue" originally published in AVIATION HISTORY magazine Jan. 1995 ... Rich's account of the devastating fire at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton Ontario, Feb. 1993 and some of the history behind the aircraft lost

  13. "Dream Machine" originally published in AVIATION HISTORY magazine Jan. 1998... Canada's legendary supersonic interceptor, the Avro Arrow

  14. "George "Buzz" Beurling" originally published in AVIATION HISTORY magazine Nov. 1997 ... George "Buzz" Beurling, Canada's highest scoring WW2 ace

  15. "Encounter With a Legend" learn about the famous WW1 Fokker triplane & the Sopwith Camel

  16. "Manned Missile" Lockheed F-104 Starfighter... a success story without precedent

  17. "Billy Bishop; Canada's WW1 Ace" originally published in AVIATION HISTORY magazine May 1999 ... Rich's story of a Canadian legend

  18. "Snowbird's Reunion Odyssey" Rich's account of his memorable trip to the 30th anniversary reunion of the Snowbirds, CFB Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Oct. 2000

  19. "Rhino Charge" on June 2, 1972, flying an F-4E Phantom II at over 1.2 mach, USAF pilot Maj. Phil "Hands" Handley shot down a MiG-19 with 20mm cannon fire

  20. "The Queen Returns" a tribute to RCAF 6 Group ... among the very best

  21. "Looking for Trouble" the Hawker Typhoon RCAF 143 Wing (438-439-440 Squadrons)

  22. "Prairie Tailchase" the Harvard's role in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

  23. "D-Day Sweep" RCAF participation at D-Day

  24. "Kindred Spirits" Waco 10...the "Golden Age" of flying

  25. "The Long Road Home" a tribute to the legendary Lancaster

  26. "Nervous Energy" this artist loves the P-51 Mustang

  27. "Victory Over Kiska" originally published in AVIATION HISTORY magazine Jan 1995 ... a tribute to a skilled Canadian pilot and all who served in the Aleutian Campaign in WW2

  28. "Sunset Solitude" a tribute to bush pilots

  29. "Press on Regardless" originally published in AVIATION HISTORY magazine Jan. 1994 ... the story of Canadian WW2 Canso pilot, F/L David E. Hornell, VC, RCAF

  30. "Quarry in the Moonpath" the story of Canadian WW2 Liberator pilot, F/O Kenneth O. Moore DSO, American Silver Star, who successfully sank two German subs in the space of 22 minutes, June 8, 1944

  31. "Into The Wind" a remarkable Canadian Robert Hampton (Hammy) Gray, VC, DSC and his final sortee in Corsair 115 from HMS Formidable early on the morning of August 9, 1945, the same day that the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki

  32. "Follow Your Dreams" the process of creating an air-show poster and the resulting image
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