Aviation Art. 'our Airline' B737

[Alan Spears]

Aviation art. Acrylic on stretched canvas 61cm x 76cm 'Our Airline B737 over Nauru'.

 

Our Airline is the name of the national airline of Nauru. I was commissioned to paint this piece to be a gift for a retiring Our Airline management pilot.

 

 

 

[siznaudin]

Brings back a few memories... we were teachers at the secondary school there from '72-'75. They've extended the runway since that time.

 

The school was just about opposite the terminal building. John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" developed huge signifigance toward the end of our time there.

 

Take offs rattled the school louvre windows somewhat, too!

 

"Topside" is rather green - almost all of it has been stripped of the (predominant) Tomano trees in order to extract the phosphate rock.

 

Scuba diving pretty good too - after the fringing reef it drops off at about 45° to whatever depth you care to name.

 

I was young enough (& silly enough?) to crack a single tank "bounce" dive to 200 feet on one occasion. All a long time ago now.