Where Aviation Meets Modern Art

Plane Pieces Inc is giving away Aviation Art every Friday.

 LIMITED TO 250 PIECES!!! MADE IN THE USA!!! A PLANE PIECES INC ORIGINAL DESIGN!!
 
 SIMPLISTIC AND COMPLICATED MID-CENTURY MODERN DESIGN

This industrial modern art Piston Dock was created using a 1940's WWII Jacobs R-755 (or often called the L-4) radial engine piston. The R-755 was used during World War II and powered airplanes including the Avro Anson, Cessna T-50, Avro Cadet, Anahuac Tauro, Cessna AT-17, Cessna 195, Funk F-23, Grumman Ag Cat, Kellett KD-1, Morane-Saulnier MS-505, Waco CG-15, Waco YKC, YKC-S, YKS-6, Boeing Stearman 75 and the Beechcraft Staggerwing.
 
 Piston has been satin polished and clear coated to a silver metallic finish.
 
 Piston Measures 5 inches in Diameter X 3 Inches High
 
 Comes with 6FT Black USB Cord and Wall Charger 
 
 LIMITED TO 250 PIECES ( Hand engraved (Numbered) on bottom).

Plane Pieces Inc releases another original design.
The latest is the J-Cobs radial engine airplane piston dock charger for Apple's ipods, iphones and itouches.

LIMITED TO 250 PIECES!!! MADE IN THE USA!!! A PLANE PIECES INC ORIGINAL DESIGN!!

SIMPLISTIC AND COMPLICATED MID-CENTURY MODERN DESIGN

This industrial modern art Piston Dock was created using a 1940's WWII Jacobs R-755 (or often called the L-4) radial engine piston. The R-755 was used during World War II and powered airplanes including the Avro Anson, Cessna T-50, Avro Cadet, Anahuac Tauro, Cessna AT-17, Cessna 195, Funk F-23, Grumman Ag Cat, Kellett KD-1, Morane-Saulnier MS-505, Waco CG-15, Waco YKC, YKC-S, YKS-6, Boeing Stearman 75 and the Beechcraft Staggerwing.

Piston has been polished to a mirror finish.

Piston Measures 5 inches in Diameter X 3 Inches High

Comes with 6FT Black USB Cord and Wall Charger 

LIMITED TO 250 PIECES ( Hand engraved (Numbered) on bottom).

Original art is in high demand once again with a very impressive $247.6 million sale of contemporary art on Tuesday at Christie's in NYC. The biggest sale of the night was Roy Lichtenstein's 1961 "I can see the whole room.....and there's nobody in it!" painting which sold for $43.2 million.

Other big winners included Andy Warhol's famous "Silver Liz" painting which sold for $16.3 million.

Paul McCarthy's "Tomato Head" sculpture sold for $4.3 million.

and Louise Bourgeois's 1996 Bronze "Spider" Sculpture sold for $10.7 million.

So start buying original art, your kids will thank you!

RocK the SKY! -RT

We were recently featured in Babson College Magazine's Summer Edition 2011. 
Babson College is ranked #1entrepreneurship education.
A big thank you goes out to Sharman Andersen (Editor at Babson Magazine),
Susana Soares (Art Director at Shostak Studios) and Steffen Thalemann (Celebrity Photographer).

We have acquired AviationArt.com.  Exciting things to come!  

RoCK the SKY

-RT

It all started with my family. Growing up I was influenced by my Mom, who was super creative and my Dad who took over my grandfather's airplane propeller company out of college and has run it ever since. He worked for himself, made his own hours, his own decisions and his own money. He didn't have anyone telling him when to work or what to do, and that's what I wanted.

From an early age my goal was to never work for anyone but myself. I started buying and selling baseball cards, Beanie Babies, VHS movies, concert t-shirts, concert tickets, etc. I didn't care what the product was as long as I could make money. During my years at Babson College in Wellesley, MA I became obsessed with trading stocks, but after missing too many classes my sophomore year my parents made me stop. To compensate for the end of my stock trading days, my Dad had his employees polish up fixed-pitch airplane propellers, which I sold on eBay. I didn't know the first thing about airplane propellers, but knew selling these propellers each month I would have enough money to continue the Boston lifestyle I was used to when I traded stocks.

My junior year I was focused on creating a company I could run when I graduated. After selling a used Dave Matthews Band concert shirt on eBay for $120.00 I began seeking out thrift stores, Goodwills, Salvation Armys and Savers to find more. In the process I found some really interesting used clothing and instantly began a lucrative business buying and selling used clothing on eBay. I could walk into Goodwill, spend $50.00 and walk out with a $1000.00 worth of clothes after selling them on eBay. I had a knack for it and there was zero competition. Most people back then were embarrassed to even go into these stores, let alone know what items would sell online.

In 2002 I graduated from Babson College and the job market was horrid. While others in my class looked for analyst / investment manager positions, I opened an office and pursued my used clothing business for a few more years in Boston. The company was featured on Fox News and in all the papers, but soon I wanted more. I wanted my own product line.

In 2004 I moved back to Connecticut to learn about the family business. One night my family and I attended an auction and out came a pair of chrome and black midcentury modernism Wassily chairs. Something happened inside me and my world was flipped upside down. The mirror finish of the chrome, the simplicity and complexity of the design, I found modernism, I saw my new inspiration. The very next day my Dad showed me his massive warehouse filled with 60+ years of unairworthy scrap airplane parts. I saw a new world filled with possibilities. I surrounded myself with books, magazines and the designs of Eames, Aarnio, Saarinen, Miller, Knoll, Breuer, Warhol, and Starck. Without any knowledge of what these parts were intended for, I began putting pieces together, welding, sanding, grinding, blasting, and polishing and haven't stopped since.

-RT

I just had lunch at Bertucci's in West Hartford, CT and this ESPN Winter X Games 11 commercial came on.  Has nothing to do with airplane propellers but it made be happy that they used the word props so much!