An Inauspicious Start for the Bristol Fighter

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Bristol F2A Original Painting by Graham Turner GAvA

An Inauspicious Start for the Bristol Fighter Ref: GT-33C

On the morning of 5th April 1917, Captain William Robinson, who had been awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down a German airship in 1916, leads a flight of six new 48 Squadron Bristol F2As on their first combat patrol, when they are intercepted by five Albatros D.IIIs from Jasta 11, led by Manfred von Richthofen.

The Bristol would later be recognized as a powerful, maneuverable and rugged fighter, but on this occasion the pilots flew their unfamiliar new aircraft defensively, as they had flown their old BE2s; the result was catastrophic, with four of the Bristols - including Robinson - being shot down, and a fifth so badly damaged it was had to be scrapped.

Gouache painting by Graham Turner GAvA - image size 19"x 13" (48 x 33cm)

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(Right) Graham Turner creating his oil painting ' 'Contact'.

'Oops!' - Sopwith Camel accident, painting by Graham Turner

Detail from Bristol F2A Original Painting by Graham Turner GAvA

Award Winning First World War Aviation Art

Graham Turner's original oil painting Into the Hands of Fate (right) achieved award success at the 2013 Guild of Aviation Artists annual exhibition, held in the prestigious Mall Galleries, London, where it was awarded the Cross and Cockade prize for the best First World War aviation painting, the Roy Nockolds Trophy (voted for by the public), and was runner up for the two top awards - the Aviation Painting of the Year and Flypast Fellows Award for Excellence. It also sold straight away (for £7,500).

He also won the Roy Nockolds Trophy in 2011, the first time he exhibited with the Guild, for his painting 'Steady Boy', and was Highly Commended for 'Thank You Harry Tate' in 2012, both 'Victor & Vanquished' and 'Contact' in 2015, 'Replacements' in 2016, and 'Letter from Home' in 2017.

First World War Aviation prints

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