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Description
A piece commemorating the 100th anniversary of world War One, showing a Imperial German Air Service Taub (Dove), flying over a column of infantry 1914.
The Etrich Taube, also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who build versions of the type, such as the Rumpler Taube, was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first mass-produced military plane in Germany. As Imperial Germany's first practical military aircraft, the Taube ("dove") was used for virtually all military aircraft applications, as a fighter, bomber, surveillance aircraft and trainer from 1910 until the start of World War I in August 1914.
The piece was created in Illustrator and is entirely vector.
Don't ignore the fact it was an Austro-Hungarian designed and built plane, and served in Austro-Hungarian (and partly, also Italian) military aviation. Germany built its versions as licensed copies. ;-)
The proliferation of the Taube especially in Central Powers countries was largelly because Ignaz Etrich was kind enough to offer his designs for free, and the governments took to adopting them like ducks to water basically because they ignored Etrich's patent rights.
A bit of a sad story on the side, because Etrich was a really gifted aeronautic designer. I think Austria-Hungary and Imperial Germany could really thank him, especially early in the war, when they were still diversifying their aircraft industries.