Category Archives: Single Ship

If the title of this post is black and/or you see the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. My good friend and fellow fighter pilot Yago F. de Bobadilla, Maj. Gen. SAF (Ret), has assembled a PowerPoint slide show as a companion to his original collection honoring the aviators and flying machines of World War II and the artists who commemorate specific events with exceptional skill and dedication to their craft. As the title attests, this collection focuses on how aerial combat has changed since the jet engine forever altered the flying machines … Continue reading →

If the title of this post is black and/or you see the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. As stated in the post “Beautiful Aviation Art – Part Seven,” my original intent was to publish this series in six parts, but my good friend and fellow fighter pilot Yago F. de Bobadilla, Maj. Gen. SAF (ret), sent me additional examples of aviation art that deserve to be included. Text of the accompanying email follows: I did mention that I had made a version 2.0 of my AVIATION ART – WW2 compilation, deleting … Continue reading →

If you see the fighter-pilot header and/or the post title is in black, click on the title to view the featured image header. In 2011, when I first uploaded individual slides from the PowerPoint presentations as collected by Maj. Gen Yago F. de Bobadilla, Spanish Air Force, I couldn’t find a way to embed the slide show in a post. My recent collaboration with the webmaster of the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society, however, has prompted me to upload the entire presentation for viewing. The process quickly morphed into a perfect example of “The McIntosh Brothers’ Pandora’s Box Syndrome,” … Continue reading →

Not long ago I received the following email: Dear Col. McIntosh, I serve as webmaster for the website of the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society (AFEES).  See https://airforceescape.org/.  It was founded in 1964 by some American airmen who were shot down during WWII and were helped to evade capture by the Germans thanks to the help of ordinary people in the occupied countries. A cousin of mine brought to my attention the aviation art by Yago F. de Bobadilla.  It is quite remarkable and I would like to add a page to the website devoted to it.  I think that … Continue reading →

If the title of this post is black and/or you see the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. My good friend and fellow ex-fighter pilot Yago F. de Bobadilla, Maj. Gen. SAF (ret), has assembled a PowerPoint slide show as a companion to his original collection honoring the aviators and flying machines of World War II and the artists who commemorate specific events with exceptional skill and dedication to their craft. He followed the original collection with an addendum to showcase more WWII art, then added a collection devoted to The Jet Age, … Continue reading →

If the title of this post is black or you are viewing the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. This post is the first in a series devoted to documenting my personal experience with a project begun in August, 2014 and nearing the endgame in mid-October, 2015. I’ve elected to introduce the series with what might be described as the Epilogue for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that to tell the whole story now would require more time than I have at the moment, and even if … Continue reading →

If you see the fighter-pilot header and/or the title of this post is black, click on the title to view the featured image for this post. I can’t remember the last time I got excited about a birthday. Probably sometime during my pre-teen years. Don’t know why, except to guess that maybe I didn’t have enough of them behind me to think much about how many I had remaining. But now, with the sunset of life visible on the horizon, that’s changed to the point of my preferring that birthdays pass by unnoticed. Which is not to say I don’t … Continue reading →

If the title of this post is black and/or you see the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. Other professions may dispute the claim that fighter pilots coined the term “Hero Room,” but they’d be wasting their time. The standard scenario is that a married fighter pilot (or more specifically, a married ex-fighter pilot) wants to put all of his memorabilia in the living room. To show it off. To hear the oohs and ahs from adoring fans. To bask in that glory forever. But his wife won’t have it, so he … Continue reading →

If the title of this post is black and/or you see the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. Ah, yes, Mother Nature. She can be sweet and loving one minute, and then suddenly morph into a Wicked Witch. And sometimes, she can be nothing more than whimsical. A few months ago while exercising at the Hill Country Middle School athletic field near my home, I happened to glance down and find this. Picked it up and almost couldn’t believe how perfectly it matched my mind’s image of a Mongol warrior’s helmet. For … Continue reading →

If the title of this post is black and/or you see the fighter-pilot header, click on the title to view the featured-image header and continue reading. My brother and I have a long-standing tradition of dealing with the “McIntosh Brother’s Pandora’s Box” Syndrome. We believe that Pandora has dedicated her life to making one of us miserable whenever we try to fix or improve something around the house. So when one of us is contemplating a difficult project that might potentially be troublesome, we call up the other and suggest that he begin something simple that will distract Pandora long … Continue reading →