Tout sang qui coule est rouge

[KitRookie37]

Hi,
A beautiful project with a lot of respect for the symbol of who was Bullard. I'm going to follow.
Best regards.
Alain.

[andonio64]

Hi,
A beautiful project with a lot of respect for the symbol of who was Bullard. I'm going to follow.
Best regards.
Alain.

Thanks Alain for your interest

Antonio

[andonio64]

Hallo friends,
here is my drawing of the bleeding heart
(for the time being without the phrase, I plan to write it later)
This is just a jpg sample



The vectorial shape (PNG) can be downloaded here:

all of us in this community can download and use it for NON commercial purposes

Thanks

Antonio

[andonio64]

Hi friends, my silence is due to very slow progresses of course, but somehow I went forward preparing the engine, once it is completed I'll show it, thanks for your patience!!!!

;-)

[KiwiZac]

Good things come to those who wait!

[andonio64]

Good things come to those who wait!

Ha ha Zac do you love Guinness as I do?

[Rookie]

Antonio,

I'm joining this party a little late, but looked thoroughly in 'French aircraft of the first world war' by Davilla & Soltan. However, I cannot find any reference to the Bleeding Heart.

But, as always,  there is no way of knowing if it is complete, even though it has a massive 618 pages...

Are you familiar with this site?

http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/page_centaine.htm

It does not have a 'search' option, but it has tons of information.

Willem

[andonio64]

Antonio,

I'm joining this party a little late, but looked thoroughly in 'French aircraft of the first world war' by Davilla & Soltan. However, I cannot find any reference to the Bleeding Heart.

But, as always,  there is no way of knowing if it is complete, even though it has a massive 618 pages...

Are you familiar with this site?

http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/page_centaine.htm

It does not have a 'search' option, but it has tons of information.

Willem

Thanks Willem for the indication, yes I am very familiar with the Albin Denis site, I also asked him for information when building the Bre 14 , it's a fantastic site and I searched it as my first source of information, but although Bullard is present among the pilots of both Esc. 93 and 85, I couldn't find anything about the bleeding heart...

[WD]

Willem, the book French Aircraft of the First World War is great for plans and aircraft information, but it's sure not a go to for individual a/c markings. Since this marking was unique to Bullard's a/c, about the only source we'll have are published or unpublished photos from individuals, etc.

WD

[Rookie]

Yes, you are absolutely right.

Although pilots are mentioned in the text, there is neither an index of persons, nor specific mention of personal markings in this book. It has a totaly different approach than for example 'Italian aces of the first world war' by Gentilli, Iozzi and Varriale.

Well, I could have known. The titles say it all do they not?

Anyway, both books have there own merits.

Willem

[andonio64]

Hallo dear friends forum comrades, I apologize for not being actively present on this beautiful forum, I kept lurking from time to time...
After losing my beloved wife after 17 years of beautiful life together I struggled 1 year to get rid of that sad grief sensation building  a network of relationships with friends who helped me a lot, then I met a woman exactly one year after that tragic event and we decided to "travel" together throughout this amazing journey that is life, but she left me in September after 8 months without any specific reason or any reason I was (and still am) able to fully understand.
I invested all I had (and this was an error of mine) in this and when it ended I felt as I was thrown back to the point where it all started from...
Now I am again striving to rebuild my life (I'll be 60 in May) and again my closer friends still support me a lot, but I still feel a mesmerizing sense of loneliness that keeps me away from my workbench, kits, books and colors.
Life has been very generous to me during my life until then and sometimes I feel I am being asked to pay back what I took, so I am not complaining at all, if I look behind me I see a lot of people in definitely worst conditions...
I hope the energy I am putting in rebuilding myself will lead me to a rebirth and back to the workbench again!!
Sorry for bothering you with this but I really like this community and in some sense I felt I had to share my thoughts with you.

With love to you all

Antonio

[PrzemoL]

Dear Antonio, I am terribly sorry to learn about all what you have lived through in the recent times.
I wish you all the best, a quick "recovery". And if you feel it adequate - a happy return to our hobby.
Life goes on and I am sure there are better days waiting for you, too!
Thanks for taking time to keep us up-to-date.

[andonio64]

Thanks Prez...
Getting back to the forum at least will give me more motivation to start back... ;-)

[xan]

Hi Andonio,
there is a big wihle I am interested in Eugène Bullard His entiere life is amazing.
There is e french book about his story too:



I will send you the pictures I collected about his story..

Of course, no picture about his SPAD, There is not (by the moment).

Anyway I don't think the personal marking could have this appearence.
Too modern, the draw same the texte font/
We know he wore a red heart bleeding with a crossing spade.
but as we have no picture of it , we must imagine it more stylised I think , more "art nouveau", according with the period.
This one, more stylised, could be more probable in my opinion.


We have to find another font not an Arial one wich is a nowadays font...

[andonio64]

Thank you Xan, I'll look for the book and purchase it, for the time being I would thank you for sharing the pics you collected.