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	2009 ASAA International Aerospace Art Exhibition The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum Savannah and Pooler, Georgia
	Richard Allison, ASAA “Bomber Boys” 20 x 30 Oil Originally assigned to the 398th Bomb Group, “Hell’s Angel” was almost immediately transferred to the 381st after arriving in England in April, 1944. The aircraft’s nose art was a variation of the squadron logo of the 601st. Click on image for larger view
	Richard Allison, ASAA “Triplane Surprise” 14 x 18 Oil While Manfred von Richthofen scored only 19 of his 80 confirmed kills in a Fokker Dr.I triplane, it was this aircraft with which he became identified. Click on image for larger view
	Steve Anderson, ASAA “The Bristfits” 24 x 48 Oil April 1918: Bristol F.2b fighters of 48 Squadron RAF hack their way through elements of Richthofens JG1. Sopwith Camels of 209 Squadron dash in to fight the vortex of Fokker triplanes. Known as Brisfits or Biffs by their crews, the Bristol F.2b Fighter was an early example of the multi-role fighter. Designed to fulfill fighter-reconnaissance duties, it was first delivered to 48 Squadron RFC in 1917. It was powered by the Rolls-Royce Falcon V-12 and flown as a single-seat fighter with rear gunner protection. Over 240 of its pilots and gunners achieved ace status before the end of the first air war. Click on image for larger view
	Gerald Asher, ASAA “Woman’s Work” 24 x 18 Oil Major Nicole “Fifi” Malachowski was the first woman chosen to fly for the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds. Amidst all the attendant media hype surrounding her selection, she proved that, like her WASP predecessors over sixty years earlier, gender has no bearing on piloting skills. She embodies the warrior spirit that is inherent at all levels of the Air Force team, and I am happy to know her. She is pictured here on the ramp at Hickam AFB, Hawaii following arrival for Air Force Week activities in September 2007, calmly and coolly facing reporters and photographers - just another facet of women’s work. Click on image for larger view
	Jim Balletto “Preppin the Peeper” 18 x 25 Acrylic The Lockheed U2- nicknamed Dragon Lady, is a single-engine, high altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the C.I.A. It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 ft.) all weather surveillance. The aircraft is also used for electronic sensor research and development, satellite calibration and satellite data validation. This cartoon image illustrates the lighter side of the U-2’s mission. Click on image for larger view
	Ardell Bourgeois “Setting the Noose” 20 x 28 Oil Early December, 1942 - two La-5s of the 3rd Guards Fighter Squadron (3GIAP) patrol north of Stalingrad, shortly after Soviet ground forces have encircled the German 6th Army. Their job is to stop the Luftwaffe’s re-supply efforts, thus choking off the life blood of the beleaguered troops caught in the city. Click on image for larger view
	Sather Bruguiere “Running up the Salween” 16 x 32 Oil During the Battle of the Salween River that took place during the monsoons of May 1942, two Curtis P-40B/Cs of the 3rd Pursuit Squadron, American Volunteer Group (AVG), popularly known as the Flying Tigers, were flown by former Marine pilots Ken Jernstedt, as lead in #74, and Tommy Heywood, on his wing in #49. They are running up the Salween in and out of cloud shadows returning to their base at Kunming, China following strafing attacks against the enemy attempting to cross the river. Today, the Salween (known as NuJiang in China) and its famous gorges, are part of China’s Three Rivers National Park in Yunnan Province. Click on image for larger view
	Robert Brun “Flight of the Tomahawk” 18 x 24 Oil This painting depicts the freedom of flight along the cloud boundary between the earth and the sky. Click on image for larger view
	Robert Brun “Hurricane Scramble” 9 x 18 Oil Hurricanes of the 615th Fighter Squadron take off from an airstrip at Kenley in Southern England to intercept Luftwaffe raiders during the Battle of Britain in September of 1940. This painting recently won an Award of Merit at the 2009, 16th annual CAE SimuFlite “Horizons of Flight” show in Dallas. Click on image for larger view
	Paul Burrows “Lake Tranquility-Almost” 24 x 36 Oil An aging aviator practices his water-landing technique. Click on image for larger view
	Paul Burrows “Closure” 18 x 24 Oil Daybreak, and this F-101 crew is about to conclude a practice intercept at the end of an all-night exercise. This one’s easy because - as the saying goes - one eyeball on the target is worth a thousand sweeps of the radar. Click on image for larger view
	Paul Burrows “Then and Now” 18 x 24 Oil It’s 1920, and the sound of an OX-5 engine overhead signals the passage of a Curtiss JN-4 over the Carolina low country en route to - who knows where? - perhaps a field near a town whose population would like to see it from the air. Or is it 2009, and this replica Jenny is heading home from a nearby air show? Click on image for larger view
	Steven Campbell “Veteran’s Day” 20 x 24 Oil A World War 2 airman spends a moment alone with a restored B-17. Many men who served on these aircraft developed a strong bond that would last a lifetime. Click on image for larger view
	Hank Caruso, ASAA “Millennium Marines & Their Flying Machines” 11 x 14 Prismacolor As U.S. Marine Corps Aviation launches into the new millennium, radical new flying machines with revolutionary capabilities join a formidable fleet of venerable stalwarts. Included are the KC-130J Super Hercules; F/A-18D Hornet; CH-53K next-generation heavy-lift helicopter; MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor; EA-6B Prowler; AH-1Z (Zulu) Cobra attack helicopter; F-35B Lightning II; CH-46 Sea Knight;; and AV-8B+ Harrier II Plus. Click on image for larger view
	Hank Caruso, ASAA “Stranded in the Jungle” 11 x 14 Prismacolor When aerial missions went sour in the Vietnam war, the Sikorsky HH-3E was often part of the back-up plan to fly aviators having a bad day back home to the finish line. Nicknamed the Jolly Green Giant, the HH-3E was equipped with a 240-foot long rescue hoist cable to reach through the dense forest canopy to the downed aircrew. Click on image for larger view
	Hank Caruso, ASAA “Valhalla Bound” 11 x 14 Prismacolor After 35 years of stellar operational service, the Lockheed Martin S-3 Viking is facing its final tour of duty. Originally created as a carrier-based stalker of skulking submarines, its versatile design allowed the Viking to expand into the realms of sea surface patrol, electronic intelligence gathering (via the ES-3A Shadow), sea and ground attack, over-the-horizon targeting, and aerial refueling. But even after its retirement from U.S. Navy service, the Viking will continue to fly for years to come as an atmospheric and aeronautical research aircraft for NASA. Click on image for larger view
	Douglas Castleman “P38J” 8 x 24 Oil Lockheed P-38J Lightning of the 55th FS, 20th FG, 1944. Click on image for larger view
	John Clark, ASAA “Lunar Phase” 12 x 14 Oil Our moon shown in its medium phase. Click on image for larger view
	Gil Cohen, ASAA “Almost Home” 28 x 46 Oil Just a year or two earlier, the bomber boys could be found in the classroom, on the job or at the ballpark. Now, aboard B-17’s, they bomb the German War Machine and targets like Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Bremen or Berlin. On today’s mission, frost covers their windshields. They grit their teeth through skies blackened by flak and fighters. Finally, the friendly coastline of Dover appears. Intense relief shows on the crew’s beaming faces. One crewman may be wounded, and engine may be out, but they are Almost Home. Click on image for larger view
	Buzz Ferrell “Papa Hero” 70 x 35 Steel (2 images) Frank Ferrell, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, in World War II. From an original photograph of my grandfather sitting in his aircraft in 1945. Click on image for larger view
	Peggy Foy “Foggy Morning Take-off” 12 x 24 Oil Ring-necked pheasants flushed from the grass by a Curtiss Hornet 18-B. In 1918, the Hornet, built with advanced aerodynamic design and powered by the Curtiss K-12 engine, was flown at 163 mph and climbed to 34,610 feet breaking all world records; however, the end of WWI signaled its early demise. Click on image for larger view
	Steven Heyen “Right on Time” 18 x 36 Oil My painting depicts the P-47D-10 flown by Lt. Fred Christensen, of the 62nd FS, 56th FG, in 1944. Fred and his colleagues have rendezvoused with a formation of B-26s not far inland from the French coast. I have always admired the brutish appeal of the P-47, and in particular, the “Razorback’’ version. I also like depicting the green camouflage and the effects of weathering. As a child living in Papua New Guinea, I often played on the remains of a P-47. I still recall the hardness of the stressed skin and its sheer size, wondering how something so heavy ever got airborne. Click on image for larger view
	Brian Hohner “Mighty Mouse” 23 x 35 Pastel & Watercolor Between the years 1967 and 1969, the secret air war in Laos was conducted on a deniable basis by the volunteers of the 609 Special Operations Squadron. In blacked out aircraft with the ‘Stars and Bars’ painted over, they became night hunters that worked with Forward Air Controllers to interdict NVA supply columns on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. Flying Douglas Counter-Invaders based out of Thailand, they would arrive on their patrol station as the sun set. In this painting, number 651 (Mighty Mouse) and wing mate get started a bit early as the FAC calls them in hot on some truck traffic emerging from the fog down below. Click on image for larger view
	John Hume “The Great Ones” 30 x 20 Alkyd Mt. McKinley is known as the “Great One.” In 1932, the famous Alaskan bush pilot Joe Crosson ferried the expeditions of the first climbers to attempt to scale the mountain. He also established the true height of McKinley, using a specially equipped Fairchild 71. A Stearman C-2B, NC-5415, was used as a support aircraft. Crosson also used the Stearman on many of his mercy flights, delivering medicine to isolated villages on Alaska’s Arctic coast. Click on image for larger view
	John Hume “Vent la Morte” 30 x 40 Alkyd Air Force Captain Ralph Parr engages a swarm of MiG-15 fighters and flames the leader from extreme close range. As Parr closed alongside his flaming victim, the rest of the MiG flight began firing passes from all directions. Parr emerged unscathed from all of his engagements and went on to become a double ace, scoring 10 kills. The North American F-86F Sabre flown by Captain Parr was named by his crew chief Vente de la Morte, after a popular western novel meaning Wind of Death. Click on image for larger view
	Tom Kalin “Path of Experience” 24 x 36 Oil This scene depicts an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Super G L.1049G Constellation, circa 1957. Eastern took delivery of ten Super G Constellations in late 1956 and utilized them until 1968. Although equipped with weather radar, nothing could ever replace the sound judgment of an experienced pilot to help guide the aircraft through the often challenging weather found along the Eastern Air Lines routes. . Click on image for larger view
	Eugene Kunsitis “Fresh Water Shower” 17 x 21 Watercolor Who could forget the joy of standing on your anchored PBY-5 taking a shower in the rain on Vanikoro Island in 1943. I dedicate this painting to my fellow Crewmen: Lt. W. Johnston, Lt. (jg) Deprato, and Ensign N. Ebell 1st Ordinance Bombardier – T Harward 2nd Ordinance Bombardier – Annis 1st AMM – J. Fuller 2nd AMM – R. Lamothe 2nd ARM – E Moser. Click on image for larger view
	Jo-Ann Lizio “AT-6 Star” 24 x 64 Scuptural “AT-6: Star” is simple in design and execution representing the North American AT-6 “Texan” trainer. Before the Army Air Corps was the United States Air Force, the nationality roundels on wings and fuselages of military airplanes included a simple white star and red circle surrounded by a field of “insignia blue.” Click on image for larger view
	Jo-Ann Lizio “Little Red Rudder-Patty’s Peace” 48 x 32 Sculptural Upside down flight identifies the similarity between visual arts and the art of acrobatics; both motivated toward a Zen state of disregard. Patty’s Peace is headed for the sun, the earth, the prize. Click on image for larger view
	Sam Lyons, ASAA “J-3 Morning” 22 x 28 Acrylic This is a 1946 J-3 Piper Cub formerly owned by the artist. It is in the hangar, ready for routine maintenance work. The play of light and shadows – and the amount of painstaking details – make for a stunning picture. Click on image for larger view
	Bruce MacKay “Blue Stocking Loners” 16 x 40 Oil The de Havilland Mosquito, 653rd Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, which was completely unarmed, relied on its speed and altitude to keep out of trouble. The missions were not flown in groups; but, as lone aircraft with a pilot, and a navigator trained in meteorology for weather reconnaissance. The 653rd flew 1,131 ‘Blue Stocking’ meteorological flights. They would penetrate the far reaches of East Germany, Austria, and all points south. Click on image for larger view
	Bruce MacKay “Vesuvius Rendezvous” 20 x 24 Oil B-25s, from the 447th Bombardment Squadron, 321st Bombardment Group, on their way to bomb Monte Cassino used the volcano as an assembly point passing the erupting Vesuvius with its snow and dust-covered lower slopes. The eruption on March 22nd 1944 more physical damage to the 340th Bombardment Group than did the Germans. 88 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers were covered in hot ash which burned off the fabric control surfaces and grazed the Plexiglas. Planes were tipped onto their tails from the weight of the ash. All 88 B-25s from all four squadrons were completely wrecked. Click on image for larger view
	Larry Manofsky “Saturn V-Moon Ride” 22 x 48 Acrylic AS-500F, the facilities checkout vehicle, sits on pad 39A of Kennedy Space Center with the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background. It was the first public debut of the Saturn V, with rollout occurring on April 1, 1966. Click on image for larger view
	Larry McFeron “By the Seat of His Pants” 19 x 10 Sculptural The classic pilot from the mid 1920s. The parachute came out in 1923. Click on image for larger view
	Vincent Meslet “Release to Service” 18 x 24 Oil “Release to Service” represents a Royal Saudi Air Force Tornado low over the desert, sometime in mid 2009. The RSAF Tornadoes have been modernized and have new capabilities added, such as the Damocles Targeting Pod under the belly. The aircraft is in the colors of the 75th Squadron based in Dhahran. This canvas will be presented to the RSAF commander and Giclee prints offered to RSAF officers. Click on image for larger view
	Priscilla Messner-Patterson “Quilted Shadows” 30 x 22 Quilting Values in fabric illustrate a Super Cub on a frozen lake. Click on image for larger view
	Wade Meyers, ASAA “Temporary Reprieve” 20 x 40 Oil Limping along in a crippled Flying Fortress over the North Sea and still within the reach of enemy fighters, 94th Bomb Group pilot 2nd Lt. C. Arliss Watts and his crew breathe a sigh of relief at the arrival of an escort of P-51s. Their B-17G, nicknamed “Roll Me Over”, had received flak damage while on the bomb run over Kiel, Germany, on 4 April 1945, resulting in the failure of the no. 2 engine and a wind-milling propeller. The suspense was not over yet, for soon after they had passed Helgoland, the Mustangs would depart and no. 3 engine, seen here trailing an ominous mist, would also fail, forcing Lt. Watts to feather that propeller as well. However, the crew did return safely to the 94th’s home base of Rougham, near Bury St. Edmunds. Click on image for larger view
	Matt Milkowski “Views from a B-17” 7 x 9 Aquatint Etchings Painting is a bizarre and magical affair. It opens channels between what I think I know, and what I wish to know about the world; between where I am, and where I imagine being. There are things that speak to us without words and often without warning. The history of a World War ll bomber and the dream world of my dog are just two globules of this odd, magnetic stuff. It lures me, when I least expect, into new personal dialogues and insights, revealing ways to cope with what I don’t understand, and ways to be a happy person. Click on image for larger view
	Matt Milkowski “Vision Over Europe” 84 x 100 Oil On painting airplanes: The B-17 was an American bomber flown over Europe in WWll. Crewmen operated in incredibly cramped spaces exposed to air temperatures of - 40 degrees for up to ten hours. One of out of every three B-17s perished before its crew could complete 25 missions and return to the states. Click on image for larger view
	Jessie Newman “Wingless Knight” 14 x 17 Oil My inspiration for this piece comes from my interests in aviation as well as a snapshot of myself at that time. For the past year, I have questioned my current career path and have felt a “little lost in the woods”. This image is what I wanted to convey in this piece; the feeling of being overwhelmed by looming trees in all directions and uncertain of which path to travel on. Suddenly, the silhouette of “aWingless Knight” appears in the watery mirror at your feet, framed by autumn leaves. At that moment you feel a great sigh of relief for you have been saved. The aircraft seen here is a Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk, often used in search and rescue missions. For many, this image from above has been a symbol of hope. I also chose to use an autumn setting to represent the transition between seasons. For me, my life as a graduate student is a transitional period and a valuable learning experience. Click on image for larger view
	Cher Pruys “Airbase” 9 x 14 Watercolor All is quiet on the docks of this normally bustling airbase in north country. Click on image for larger view
	John Reinhold “A Golden Time” 12 x 24 Oil An Inter-Island Airways Sikorsky S-43 drops off passengers on one of the Hawaiian Islands. Click on image for larger view
	John Reinhold “On Step with the Past” 16 x 22 Oil In the late 1930s, Inter Island Airways flew between the islands of Hawaii. The Sikorsky S-43 is “on step” departing Kona on the Big Island. Click on image for larger view
	John Reinhold “Big Goat Lake- Misty Fjords” 24 x 30 Oil High above the ocean is one of the most popular attractions in Misty Fjords/Ketchikan, Alaska – Big Goat Lake and its spectacular waterfalls. Only by air can you enjoy this lake and the de Havilland Beaver is by far the best way to set down on the lake and enjoy it. Click on image for larger view
	Paul Rendel, ASAA “Air Force Special Ops” 36 x 30 Oil Air Force Special ops team departs a C-130 in off-field conditions at Hurlburt Field, Florida, home of the 720th Special Tactics Training Group. Click on image for larger view
	Michelle Rouch “Alternative Nose Art” 12 x 14 Watercolor Inspired by Hank Caruso, many airplanes take on human-like characteristics. This is my portrait of the AV-8B Harrier, up close and personal. Click on image for larger view
	Michelle Rouch “Aspiring Pilot” 12 x 14 Watercolor Aspiring pilot adventures through a field of dreams. Click on image for larger view
	Norman Siegel “Revised Edition II” 36 x 29 Oil Time-Life originally published “The World We Live In” series starting in December 1952 and ending in December 1954. It was so popular, that Time-Life published a “coffee table” book in 1955. For reasons unknown, the original moon painted by Chesley Bonestell for the magazine cover and the book dust cover was altered by Time-Life. I have “revised” the cover back to Chesley’s original depiction of the moon. This distressed edition was purchased for $4 at the Westport CT Library used book sale in 2002 Click on image for larger view
	Norman Siegel “High Tech Bug Zapper” 24 x 48 Oil June 26, 2008” Captain Ken Radford of the 517th Airlift Squadron, The Firebirds, are on a low-level training flight from Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage to Eielson AFB Fairbanks via the Susitna River, turns the controls of the C-17 to his co-pilot. Dropping down to 500 ft., the mighty C-17 encounters a swarm of bugs and “zaps” thousands all the way to Eielson. Click on image for larger view
	Craig Slaff, ASAA “Safe Passage” 14 x 16 Oil In October 1990, HM-14 deployed to the Persian Gulf for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, maintaining a nine-month presence and flying over 5315 hours, clearing over 768 square miles of Iraqi-mined waters. Click on image for larger view
	Mimi Stuart “Tuskegee Airmen American Royalty” 24 x 24 Mixed Media Heroes over the skies of Europe and North Africa, yet rendered invisible once on home soil...During WWII, a thousand African-American pilots and flight crew personnel vanquished the notion they were “not smart enough to fly airplanes.” They soon became such revered aviators that bomber pilots requested the signature “Red Tails” as escorts for their most danger ous missions. The crews never left their bombers. Their valor saved countless lives. Official recognition came decades late; yet those brave souls known as the Tuskegee Airmen have captured our hearts as true American Royalty. Click on image for larger view
	Charles Thompson, ASAA, GAvA “Cold War Reflections” 31 x 23 Oil The English Electric Lightning as shown suspended I a vertical attitude from the hanger roof in the newly opened Cold War Exhibition Hall at RAF Museum, Cosford, England. This attitude is what most spectators to the air show during the Cold War Years will remember, when Lightnings would take off and immediately rotate into the vertical and disappear into the sky above. Click on image for larger view
	Charles Thompson, ASAA, GAvA “Spitfires and Spritsails” 16 x 39 Oil Supermarine Spitfire Mk Is of No. 54 Squadron from RAF Rochford, Essex, flying over a fleet of working sailing barges in the river Thames estuary, prior to the outbreak of WWII. These famous failing barges, using barge boards on each side of the hull instead of a central keel, were sea-going and unique to the Thames River. Their spritsail designed rigging easily allowed the mast to be lowered for navigating under low bridges in the higher reaches of the river. Click on image for larger view
	Kevin Weber “Capt. Bruce Weber - Navy Cross” 25 x 30 Oil Capt. Bruce Weber, commander of the VF-31 Meat Axers, scores a direct hit on the IJN Battleship Ise during the attack on Kure Harbor in Japan. He was awarded the Navy Cross for this action. Click on image for larger view
	Peter Wenman “The Roar of Thunder” 14 x 44 Oil P-47Ms from the 61st FS, 56th FG take off in close formation from runway 04, Boxted (Station 150), in April 1945. With wingtips overlapping, Russ Kyler in HVJ and his wingman show how it’s done. Click on image for larger view*
	Ronald Wong, ASAA “MiG Alley Blues” 28 x 21 Acrylic 1/Lt Michael E. DeArmond, E-Fight, 335th “Indian Head” Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, Kimpo (K14), Korea. Shot down during a dogfight deep in MiG Alley on 21 April 1952, while flying Wing on the Squadron Commander, he ejected at 25,000ft and 600mph just as the aircraft blew up. Click on image for larger view
	Keith Woodcock, ASAA, GAvA “Speed” 20 x 20 Acrylic The twin-engined Macchi MC72 was originally designed to compete in the Schneider Trophy Races, but was not completed in time for the final race. However, it did set a new world speed record for floatplanes at an amazing 440.68 mph in October 1934. Click on image for larger view