Section Scramble
by Pat Speirs
Title
Section Scramble
Artist
Pat Speirs
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art Print
Description
Section Scramble
A section of Spitfires claws for height as they are called for an instant take-off. Based on a temporary winter strip, albeit with nice accommodation in the nearby manor house, the Spits stand ready for the alert call. Given the green light from the control caravan the aircraft are airborne in minutes leaving a haze of blowing snow at the far end of the strip. If needed, the �blood wagons� stand ready at the edge of the field when the aircraft recover.
Tactical strip operations became the norm as the Allied forces edged their way across Europe in 1944.
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January 31st, 2012
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Comments (3)
Gary Eason
Great scene! Very imaginative. No aircraft shadows though ..?
Pat Speirs replied:
Thanks Gary, shadows left out as sun is very low and left - see fence post and tree shadows - also difficult to get angle of shadow image just right, so chickened out. Need to work on this!!