Showing posts with label pilot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pilot. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Happy Holidays - Flight Studio Store

Happy Holidays from InterFlight Studio and Flight Studio Store.
www.flightstudiostore.com


Are you at a loss for new gift ideas this year?  Why not get your loved ones something inspired by flight?  What could be more magical than that?  InterFlight Studio & Flight Studio Store have the perfect gifts for the aviation lover in your life.  Whether you have a small child that just LOVES airplanes, or maybe you are a stuartist or pilot, no matter what your role in the aviation life, Flight Studio Store has the perfect gifts for this holiday season.

We offer the entire collection of PanAM bags, and we ship internationally!!!  We also offer the Randolph Engineering collection, and the Randolph Ranger collection.

For something a little more unique and personal, try browsing through our artists section where we have collected a number of fine art with an aviation twist.  Flight Studio Store also offers fine, luxury design pieces as well, including some pieces made from original aircraft parts.

No matter what your needs are for this holiday season, and no matter the budget, flight studio store has something to offer everyone.  Check out our online store today:



www.flightstudiostore.com



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Miami Art Basel 2013

Miami's Art Basel 2013

Oscar Garcia, President of InterFlight Studio, took to the galleries to get the word out about the next great artist, especially on the aviation scene.  Richard Kai, an artist and pilot from Japan, has been making the most amazing paintings.  


Pictured Below:  Snow Covered Approach
What a beautiful view of the northern lights and the blue moon through the window of the cockpit. 






Richard Kai is inspired by city-scapes and skies.  As a former pilot of international lines and large scale planes, Richard Kai has had a lot of flying hours in the cockpit.  From memory, he has transformed those visionary experiences into oil paintings.  

When you look at one of Kai's pieces, you can easily imagine yourself as the pilot, behind a 747 about to land in one of the world's most fabulous cities.  New York, Hiroshima, Paris, London, or Hawaii, no matter what city you are landing in, the world looks beautiful from Kai's perspective.  

Dont be surprised when you see Richard Kai's work on the Miami scene.  His bright color pallet really connects with the Art Deco lifestyle of Miami, and its themes resonate with Miami's jet setting culture.  

Check out Richard Kai's work at the link here:  http://www.interflightstudio.com/#!richard-kai/cepr

Richard Kai is exclusively represented by InterFlight Studio:  www.interflightstudio.com

Friday, October 25, 2013

Scimitar Propeller Blade Sculpture - Modern Decor at its best

The Scimitar Propeller sculpture by InterFlight Studio, is one of the most valuable objects of decoration on the market today.  This rare propeller blade holds within it, a piece of aviation history and excitement.  There are only a limited number of these even in existence in the world.
Now, InterFlight Studio is offering them to collectors and art appreciators around the world for a value price.  This object is perfect for an art or design collector because of the history this piece holds.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           A scimitar propeller is shaped like a scimitar sword, with increasing sweep along the leading edge. Typically scimitar propellers are constructed of lightweight or composite materials. In the early 1900s they were made of laminated wood. The combination of light weight and efficient aerodynamics results in more power and reduced noise.
Turboprops have a fairly narrow sweet spot at speeds below about 450 mph. All propellers lose efficiency at high speed, due to an effect known as wave drag which occurs just below supersonic speeds. This powerful form of drag exhibits sudden onset, and it led to the concept of a sound barrier when it was first encountered in the 1940s. In the case of a propeller, this effect can happen when the prop is spun fast enough that the tips of the prop start traveling near the speed of sound, even if the plane itself is not moving forward.Propfan engines use contra-rotating scimitar propellers to achieve turboprop efficiency levels at high subsonic air speeds comparable to that of turbofans.
This can be controlled to some degree by adding more blades to the prop, absorbing more power at a lower rotational speed. This is why some World War II fighters started with two-blade props and were using five-blade designs by the end of the war. The only downside to this approach is that adding blades makes the propeller harder to balance and maintain. At some point, though, the forward speed of the plane combined with the rotational speed of the propeller will once again result in wave drag problems. For most aircraft, this will occur at speeds over about 450 mph.
A method of decreasing wave drag was discovered by German researchers in WWII: sweeping the wing backward. Today, almost all aircraft designed to fly much above 450 mph (700 km/h) use a swept wing. In the 1940s, NACA started researching propellers with similar sweep. Since the inside of the prop is moving more slowly than the outside, the blade becomes progressively more swept toward the outside, leading to a curved shape similar to that of a scimitar.

For more information about the Scimitar Propeller Sculpture, or InterFlight Studio, please email us at:
or send us an email through our website:  www.interflightstudio.com

Thursday, October 17, 2013

747 Plane transformed into a home

http://inhabitat.com/retired-747-airplane-transformed-into-striking-malibu-home/

This is an amazing idea, and great way to re purpose things.  A guy decides to build a dream home from a retired 747 airplane in Malibu, CA.

Here’s how it works: buy a retired 747 for the paltry sum of $35,000. Register it with the FAA so pilots flying overhead don’t mistake the house for a downed aircraft. Disassemble the 230-foot long, 195-foot wide machine. Elevate the wings and tail stabilizers to use as a roof for the master bedroom. Create a roof for a detached art studio from a 50-foot long section of the upper fuselage. Add a guesthouse, constructing its roof from the remaining front part of the fuselage and the upper first-class cabin. The front of the airplane works well — for someone with absolutely no fear of flying — as a meditation gazebo, where the cockpit windows form a skylight. And since we’re in ranch country, use the cargo hold as an animal barn.
The philosophy behind the Malibu house, dubbed Wing House, has taken shape over time, like the disassembled parts of the plane. The 55-acre property previously belonged to costume designer Tony Duquette, who built more than 20 structures from found objects, and the rugged terrain favors multiple smaller structures.
New owner Francie Rehwald wanted curvilinear “feminine” shapes, and imagined a kind of floating roof set among the hills. An airplane wing sprang to architect David Hertz’s mind. The found shapes of the aircraft paradoxically echoed the indigenous feel that Duquette’s structures had established: “The 747 represented the single largest industrial achievement in modern history and its abandonment in the deserts make a statement about the obsolescence and ephemeral nature of our technology and our society.” In some sense, too, the airplane was like a giant aluminum can: a perfect metaphor for recycling — particularly because the airline industry is one most gluttonous users of aluminum cans. And design-wise, planes maximize space while minimizing materials.
Wing House will be completed by the end of this year.



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

DAVID GALE - Metal Artist

David Gale started this work of art as a tribute to the old models that were created for display in the 50's.  He made the tooling for the core as well as wood and plastic patterns for the airplanes' steel structures.  The end result is a unique hand made aircraft with a lamp (with dimmer) designed so when lit, the glow lights up the aircraft, giving the illusion of an aircraft flying at night with its cabin lights on.

The Super Constellation is possibly one of the most beautifully balanced aircraft ever designed.  The dolphin like overall shape and tail design have distinguished this aircraft from the rest.

John Travolta is among the aviation connoisseurs and art collectors, one of the proud owners of an original David Gale lamp.


The Artist:  "I have always liked the exterior shapes of classic aircraft from the 30's through the 50's.  Especially the early jets like the P-80, F-86, Meteor, and MIG-15, and all commercial transports of the 40's and 50's.

In my artwork, I use many of the techniques, riveting, sheet metal etc used in aircraft and automobiles.  Aircraft structure is almost always very strong yet as lightweight as possible, a type of idealized construction.  I try to keep the aesthetics of aircraft alive but add new materials and function to go beyond the creation of a straight sculpture."
 


David Gale, a native of the Los Angeles area in California, has been an artist as long as he can remember.  With a passion for airplanes and race cars, he creates work of art with a function.  David is mostly impressed with the way that aircraft look despite the fact that their designers concentrated on function and not on aesthetics per se.  Aircraft are engineered and designed with factors in mind other than aesthetics such as speed, airflow, weight, etc.  The fact that aircraft are beautiful is unintentional.  But it is this spontaneous beauty that moves David Gale to create a new function for parts that have lost their function.

For more information about InterFlight Studio or our other artists please visit:
www.interflightstudio.com

Friday, October 4, 2013

Aviation in Interior Design

The world of Aviation has been brought to interior design, thanks to Oscar and Yvette Garcia, founders of InterFlight Studio.  Together the two take their love and passion for aviation and spread it to others in new and interesting ways.
Each piece is an original work of art.  It's like owning a something that is both a significant piece of human history, but it is also a functional beautiful art piece, giving you inspiration of flight every day.




InterFlight Studio is the world only art and design gallery and showroom dedicated only to artists and designers inspired by flight and aerospace.  Collectors and designers around the world have been collecting InterFlight Studio's original pieces for their collection.  InterFlight Studio only uses real airplane parts for each and every design.  You can be assured that everything is authentic and real.  Now it can be your turn to own something amazing.  
Please visit our site:  www.interflightstudio.com   to see what other furniture pieces and fine art we have.  You might be inspired to add some lift to your home decor.  

To contact InterFlight Studio please email:  gallery@interflightstudio.com
Please put "SOCIAL" somewhere in the subject line.  


Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Wing Flap Bench - Original Aircraft Furniture Art

Introducing a piece by Facundo Poj.  This very special, one of a kind bench was made entirely from original aircraft parts.  Embellishing the parts are some bamboo strips on either end of the bench, making it the perfect spot to set your coffee cup, wine glass, or little snack on.  This bench is of course made entirely of aluminum, however it is very comfortable.  Designed from the wing flaps from an aircraft, these pieces are put together perfectly to give you relaxed comfort.

This piece works well in a home or office.  It would be a great conversation piece for the office or lobby, because this piece attracts people whereever it goes.

This work of art measures about ten feet long and 3 feet tall.  Make sure you have a wall space big enough to get this piece through.










To inquire more about this one of a kind piece please email Kim at:  kimlams@interflightstudio.com

Or to see what other furniture InterFlight Studio makes please visit:  www.interflightstudio.com

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

HERVE ALEXANDRE

Hervé Alexandre

Born in Rouen, France, Hervé Alexandre excelled in the arts from a young age, however it was not until he focused his studies on portraiture and painting at Toulouse, France, and over to Ottowa, Canada from 1981 to 1984 that he truly refined his skill and style. Alexandre prefers to create realistic works in irrealistic media and colors. His material use range from pastel, charcoal, acrylic, oil, and pen on board or canvas and incorporate collages as well.
Hervé Alexandre’s portraiture depicts various subjects, largely drawn from his travels, or in the case of the aerospace Collection, his occupation, working for Air France. Alexandre has dedicated collections to Mongolia, China, Latin America, and Africa and some of the aerospace Portraits are in the permanent collection of the Sao Paolo aerospace Museum in Brazil.
Alexandre has been creating aerospace inspired pieces since 2006 and we are pleased to present them to you at InterFlight Studio Gallery and at Out of the Blue Café located at 2426 NE 2nd Ave (just blocks away from the gallery).
     

FACUNDO POJ


ARTIST STATEMENT:
The first time I walked through an aircraft cemetery, I was in awe at these dead lords of the air. Large commercial airplanes laying on their bellies, missing tails and noses, fuselages cut open like the carcass of a giant mammoth. I asked the manager of the yard what happened to the carcass once all the usable spare parts had been taken away and sold. He said "well, I guess we cut them up to get them ready to become beer cans". Beer cans. My soul was in tears. These flying dragons, these noble machines, are one of man's greatest achievements. A loyal craft which had taken people's dreams all around the world countless times. Beer cans...
I picked up a few parts on my pickup truck. I refused to let their souls be chopped up and their bodies be turned into such un-noble devices.
I gave these beautifully crafted and engineered objects new meaning, new life, new purpose. I decided that "rebirth" was a much more fitting term for their souls, rather than "recycle".


BIOGRAPHY
Facundo is a Miami based designer born in Argentina in 1971. He was trained as a master builder back in his native Buenos Aires and moved to Boston in the early 1990's where he graduated from Architecture school and also received a Masters Degree in Urban Affairs and Environmental Problems. Poj is a handcrafter of furniture and objects. His use of materials is definitely on the unconventional side of the spectrum. Poj spends much of his time looking for treasures in junk yards. He searches for objects with a soul and a lasting quality to them. Mr. Poj ponders on the subject of memory and historic value. Historic value not at the superficial level of style and form, but at a deeper level, he values the biography of objects and materials.
Poj also invests much energy researching new ways of using materials of great qualities which are not that far into the unconventional, but which have not fallen yet into the hands of large scale mainstream manufacturing. All his furniture pieces are designed through high technology, handcrafted, and built for life.
Mr. Poj's design services and exclusive handcrafted pieces have been sought not only by private clients and collectors, but also by important corporate clients such as Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton USA, Veuve Clicquot, Ecoist, Dom Perignon, Citrine by the Stones, Simmons of Argentina and others.

OSCAR AND YVETTE GARCIA


Yvette and Oscar Garcia have been inspired by the magic of flight since their early childhood. Meeting aboard a 747 aircraft, Oscar as a Pilot and Yvette as an adventurous globe trotting passenger.

Since then, they have lived a flying life-love story immersed in the world of flight, fuelling  their creativity and supported their joint work as designers and artists for more than  a decade.

Through their designs, Oscar and Yvette address the fundamental attributes of mankind’s possibilities through the magic of flight.

Their designs evoke and reflect, elegantly, the intelligent, creative, artistic and humanitarian dimensions of flight, in all their splendour.

“Our artist and designer vision is twofold, first to create and deliver unique items that embody the “art of flight” and give a sense of infinite space, time, peace and freedom. And second, to place our designs in spaces that allow the collectors, owners or viewers to share in the emotions and inspiration of flight”. Yvette Garcia states

We offer to our clients, private, public and corporate the opportunity to acquire and collect our art creations, designs, artefacts and objects and to  inspire them to be conscious, to look above, beyond and to marvel about flight, and the infinite sky and space around us.

About Oscar                                                                                                           

Oscar is a unique aviation artist, with a piloting, strong science and business backgrounds. Oscar reconnected with his childhood passion for drawing and painting after more than twenty years, and meeting Yvette flying as a pilot on a Boeing 747 aircraft.

Oscar’s aerospace bound life story details are intriguing and engaging. Starting his craft at a very early age, he was known for selling self-adhesive photo collages to his peers in primary schools to decorate their school books, motor scooters and even room wallpapers. Model airplanes, sketches and early day canvases, often given as gifts to aspiring aviators and charities are scattered around the world.
Oscar’s work is unique, simple, yet powerful paintings, painted model aircraft and aircraft three dimensional collage compositions and assemblages.

About Yvette

Yvette’s art education started at a young age in The Netherlands. Through her upbringing in Asia and travel experiences, her style matured and evolved into a multi culturally reflection on the aesthetics of life, flight, love and family.  She uses a rich variety of objects, animals, planets, aircraft and birds which merge into backgrounds and sculptural arrangements that are simple yet powerfully appealing to the senses. Yvette’s creations reflect  and propose that soaring above, taking flight anywhere, could very well  be the driving force of love and harmony everywhere in the world ,and the universe.

RICHARD KAI


Please check more of Richard Kai work here:  http://www.interflightstudio.com/#!richard-kai/cepr


 I am a flight engineer of the Japan Air Line cockpit crew on board B747. The total flight time is approximately 15,000 hours. Flying in the great arch of the sky, I can see many countries and splendid views. Richard Kai, my artist name, has been chosen to promote my artwork overseas. In Japan, I won two Prova Awards, which are given to landscapes, for both of two pieces of the artwork I sent. One of the awards is named after Sasakura Teppei, a famous painter known for his European landscapes. Afterwards, I started my new career. I have selected Honolulu as my main business site and have been creating new paintings. 



In Japan, I have produced truly unique pieces of artwork that I call Cockpit Art. I appeared on a TV news program by Osaka Mainichi TV Station, Voice. Featuring my artwork, the program was titled as “Cockpit is art: Guess the first job of a popular painter.” It attracted many responses from viewers. Mainichi TV Station broadcasts another popular TV series, Jonetsu Tairiku, which features one person’s life. They are interested in featuring my life in which I am pursuing my own dream through working 
as a flight engineer and an artist. 

It is my honor to have my artwork displayed in Honolulu. I love Hawai‘i so much. It has many fascinating themes: a wonderful time on Waikiki Beach where people are having a good time with their pleasant thoughts. I hope that your clients can see people’s enjoyment and dream through my playful artwork. 
I use acrylic paints on canvas for any of my artwork. 
Awards 
2008 Nations to Nations exhibition art award in United Nations of New York 
2004 Geijutsu Shincho, the most authentic art journal in Japan, features me as a painter who made a cockpit into a canvas. 
1998 The top 100 illustrators (featured in Art Box) 
1997 The Most Promising Western Painting Artists Awards (Art Box) 
1996 The Sasakura Teppei Award and the Heartwarming Award (The Prova Awards) 
1996 The Japan Watercolors Award (The Watercolors Association) 
1995 The Special Award (Beaux Arts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) 
1994 The Most Promising Artist Award (Modern naïve(doga) art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) 

Exhibitions 
2005 Exhibition in the art galleries (of the Shinjuku head store and a Matsudo branch) of Isetan Department Store 
2006 Exhibition in the art gallery of the Narita Shin International Airport 
2006 Exhibition in the Fuchu branch art gallery of Isetan Department Store 
2007 Exhibition in the art gallery of Shinjuku head store Odakyu Department Store 
2008 Exhibition in United Nations Headquarters in New York , 
Nation to Nation Working World of Artist Exhibition 
2008 Exhibition in interior gallery Sogo Yokohama Department store 
2009 Exhibition in interior gallery Sogo Yokohama. 
2010 Exhibition in Sapporo and Nagoya Mitsukoshi department store 
Exhibition in Seibu Tokyo department store 
2011 Exhibition in art salon Tokyu Yokohama department store 
2012 Exhibition in interior gallery Sogo Yokohama etc 


Thursday, June 20, 2013

FlightStudio’s Randolph Engineering authentic Aviator sunglasses are featured by Jon Hamm of Mad Men.


FlightStudio’s  Randolph Engineering authentic Aviator sunglasses are featured by Jon Hamm of Mad Men. IFG is once more featured as eBay reseller of choice for these unique shades which are once more chosen by another celebrity adding to Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Johnny Depp, amongst others
To purchase your own pair proceed to IFS Store or visit:  www.randolpheyewear.com
Press Clip
InterFlight Studio  and Randolph Engineering Aviator Sunglasses
As seen on - Jon Hamm - Mad Men

Jon Hamm, as Don Draper, wearing RE Aviator sunglasses in the television series Mad Men photo © ABC