Sci-fi/fantasy image, 1940's

[martincraig74]

I'm trying to find a Sci-fi, Fantasy image, which I use to look at when stopping with my grandparents in the 1960's. It may have been a book cover or an illustration within a book. I think it must have been published in the 1940's and was probably for a Jules Verne story. I was to young to read properly so would look at the illustration, which was in full colour and fantastically detailed. It was of a bi-plane, probably a 1930's Tiger Moth. The plane was in a shallow forty five degree dive with the nose pointing to the left. You could see two open cockpits, a pilot was in the front, and a man stood up shooting a rifle in the rear. The man in the rear cockpit was shooting at a large floating jellyfish type creature. I think the jellyfish creature, may have been angry and it had a fierce beak and was a Salomon pink colour?


Does anyone know the image, or the book it belongs to?


Thank you in advanced for any help.

 

[High Eight]

Probably an illustration for Conan Doyle's 'The Horror of the Heights' - there are several online, but none exactly matching your description.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dcBuEsdyj...jvKzCuFlUs/s400/The+Horror+of+the+Heights.jpg

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?num=...w=122&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0,i:87

http://davidszondy.com/future/Dystopias/horror.jpg

...and so on..

 

[monkeypooper]

maybe Darkness and Dawn by George Allan it's a long time since i read it but theres an open cockpit plane in that can't remember a Jellyfish though

 

[dask]

Check the covers Frank R. Paul did. Sounds like something he could have done.

 

[martincraig74]

Thank you all for your kind help, I think Conan Doyle's, The Horror of the Heights shorty story seems so much like the image I remember, that it's got to be it. I will try searching for illustrated versions, I have already found that, The Horror of the Heights, being a short story was frequently published in anthologies, which ties in with what I recall as a child, I'm sure the image was within the pages of a story rather than as the cover. Thanks again.