Special
presentation nose art paintings
on
original 1941 Bolingbroke skin.
November 1997- American ‘petty girl’ presented to Mr. Reid Stewart Austin,
ex-associate art director playboy magazine 1960’s, personal art director of
Alberto Vargas until - 1974. Author of two Varga books and George Petty story.
December
1997- American B-17 replica art presented to Cpl. Ken duff, aviation systems
technician, 12 wing, shearwater, Nova Scotia.
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The year 1998 was dedicated “Year Of the
Cowboy” by Mayor Al Duerr of Calgary.
In November 1995 Hadfield served as a mission
specialist on STS-74, NASA’s second Space Shuttle to dock with Russian
Space Station Mir. He became the first Canadian to visit Mir, first
Canadian to operate the Canadarm in orbit, and the first Canadian to
climb into an Extravehicular Mobility Unit and walk free in space. The
“Space Cowboy” nose art showed Hadfield riding the Space Shuttle
like a Calgary cowboy, complete with white hat. |
| January
1998, special “Space Cowboy” Nose Art painted on original 1941,
Bolingbroke aircraft skin to Lt. Col. Chris A. Hadfield, CD, O. Ont.,
astronaut, at the Aero Space Museum of Calgary. |
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August 1998- hurricane fuselage art of Canadian WWII fighter ace, Willie McKnight.
Presented to Flypast editor Mr. Ken Delve, England. Visit to aero space museum
of Calgary.
September
1999- presentation to Nanton Lancaster museum, painting of Walt Disney no. 107
Sqdn. Art, 1939, England.
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May 2000 - Walt Disney art presented to Canadian aviation historical society
37th annual convention held at Sheraton Cavalier hotel, Calgary, Alberta.
July
2001 - guest speaker for two days at Reynolds aviation museum, Wetaskwin,
Alberta. Presented museum with nose art panel of Canadian nose art ‘Seawolf’
Walt Disney.