Wings Of Future's Past
© Randy Asplund
$1,200.00
Acrylic & Alkyd
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Luft '46 is a term used to
describe
aircraft that the German aviation industry was working on at the
end of the second World War. In this case, prototype aircraft
were built and flown, but the Go 229 never saw production. Examples
were captured by the Allies near the end of the war. My interest
comes in from a love of both aviation and Science Fiction. Just
one look at this aircraft is enough to see how science fiction
of the past was just as amazing as it is today. Only just how
fictional is an airplane that was far enough along to be flight
tested? Imagine a few more months down the road when these flying
wings would have been hunting B-29 bombers in the skies over the
Reich. These people were half way to stealth technology back in
1945. We have only put flying wings into regular military use
in the past decades.
See my plastic model of the Go 229 in that I used to make this painting! |