F15 Fighter Jets soaring through the clouds and some gratuitous nudity feature on the cover of “Airflow” Philip Castle’s portfolio book published 1980. A design harking back to the tradition of beautiful & scantly clad ladies painted on the noses of WW2 American Bombers.
For a larger gallery of Philips Work check http://www.images2k6.com/supercoll/pcastle1.htm
An excellent example of Sci-Fi Concept Design and semi-abstraction from world renowned American visual futurist Syd Mead. Image Taken from the 1978 Paper Tiger Book “Flight of Icarus”.
Sydney Jay Mead, commonly Syd Mead, (born July 18, 1933 in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States) is an industrial designer best known for his vehicle designs in science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens, and Tron. To read more about him see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Mead or jump to his official site http://www.sydmead.com - If you’ve never heard of Syd Mead, you are in for a real visual treat!
More gorgeous Fantasy Artwork from Argentinian Artist Juan Gimenez, this image again sourced from his site http://www.juangimenez.com/caratula.html If you’ve not seen Juan’s work before do check it out, it blows most other fantasy/sci-fi art into the weeds.