In the middle of July 1944, 61st Fighter Squadron commander (and leading scorer of the 56th Fighter Group) LTC Francis S. Gabreski bounces an ME-109 for his final victory of the war. Within two weeks he would make himself a prisoner of war when, during a strafing run on an enemy airfield, he got too low and caught his propeller on the ground.

This painting is a conceptualization of an event that took place near the end of the day of the Second Battle of Guadalcanal, November 15, 1942. With smoke rising from beached enemy troop transports, Lt(jg) Roy "Butch" Voris, following his first aerial combat, returns wounded and alone to Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Later he will become an ace. In 1946, Lt Cdr. Voris would be chosen to organize and lead the Navy's Flight Demonstration Team, The Blue Angels. 

To fly for the pure fun of it! To me it means unencumbered by operations, scheduling or training inputs, no itinerary or mission, and teamed with a machine of like mind. As for chasing clouds, I've never done it but this is what I think it might look like. The aircraft shown is a Bowers Fly Baby. 

Io is one of Jupiter's Galilean Moons. It's most peculiar characteristic is the high volcanic activity taking place on its surface. Shown here are several volcanoes erupting on the dark side of the moon. 

VF-17 Pilots John ''Tommy'' Blackburn, CO VF-17 and his Intelligence Officer Roger Hedrick are seen over the water.

On April 1, 1965, two 8th Bombardment Squadron B-57s are led into the area of
Tchepone by a “Blind Bat” C-130 flare ship for the first night mission into Laos.
A Marine EF-10B Douglas “Sky Knight” from VMCJ-1 brings up the rear to jam
radar-controlled anti-aircraft systems and to detect missile sites preparing to
launch as they continued north to the Mu Gia Pass on the North Vietnam/Laos
border. The primary mission of the this unusual multi-service group was the
destruction of truck convoys as they drove down the Ho Chi Minh Trail that fed
the enemy to the south.

Launched on May 14, 1973, into a 272-mile high circular orbit, the
Skylab space station was to demonstrate that man can live and work
in the weightlessness of space for extended periods of time. Using
the Apollo Command Module for transportation to and from earth,
three teams of three astronauts spent six weeks each conducting
scientific experiments from May 25, 1973 to February 4, 1974

This Flash Gordon inspired Rocket Ship has a 2" removable plug and is hollow to store artifacts, or the cremated remains of Space Cadets that have moved on... Hand blown glass flame cone is uplit from the pedestal. A Signed Limited Edition of 25 

This is a painting of an American Airlines 707 in the original AA 'Lightning Bolt' paint scheme. The aircraft is climbing out with a cumulus cloud in the background, upon which a 'glory' is visible. A glory is an atmospheric phenomenon that is best described as a rainbow, with the full circle of the rainbow visible since the observer is not standing on the ground.

Having returned from the first Russia Shuttle mission (Operation FRANTIC) less than two weeks earlier, 4th Fighter Group pilot Capt. Neil "Dutch" Van Wyk steals a quick glance at his dog "Colonel" as he prepares to depart from Debden on an escort mission circa mid-July 1944. Van Wyk's P-51B Mustang was appropriately named FLYING DUTCHMAN. "Dutch" flew with the 4th from October 1943 until February 1945. Though not an ace, Van Wyk was regarded as a solid troop and promoted to squadron operations officer, leading many missions

The sun has just come up and a couple of very fortunate individuals are about to enjoy the exhilaration of open cockpit flight in a Boeing Stearman.

This Cessna Caravan goes about it business amidst the breathtaking scenery of these remote waters.

In 1925 the U.S. Navy was looking for a reliable design to fly over the thousands of miles of ocean to Hawaii. The PB-1 was Boeing’s contribution to the search. Powered by two 800 hp Packard engines mounted in tandem, it was one of the largest flying boats of its day.

“Operation Ten-Gone” is a word play on Operation Ten-Go – the kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato to beach itself on Okinawa in order to prevent U.S. forces from securing a beachhead in April, 1945. En route, the Yamato and support ships were attacked in several waves starting at 12:30 PM with bombs, rockets and torpedoes by 386 aircraft over a two-hour period. Corsairs, Hellcats, TBF Avengers and SBD-2s launched from 11 carriers including the Bunker Hill, Hornet, Yorktown and Intrepid attacked for two hours sending the most heavily-armed and armored battleship ever to the bottom.

Wolff’s Requiem is a depiction of the final flight of Leutnant Kurt Wolff. Wolff, a member of the famed Jagdstaffel 11, met his death on 15 September 1917 in a fight with Sopwith Camels of No. 10 Squadron, RNAS. He was flying Fokker F.I Triplane prototype F.I 102/17.

This is a drawing I did for my daughter. That's me in the picture holding her. 

A tribute to the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War Two. They said she had “stars in her eyes and the sky on her mind”. We see her climbing out of a newly minted P-38 Lightning that she has just flight-tested. She is flying for the Army Air Corps. She is a WASP.

“2008 Alliant Techsystems Inc.” All rights reserved. America's Space Shuttle Endeavour docks with the International Space Station orbiting about 220 nautical miles above the earth. ATK's twin reusable solid rocket motors provide 80 percent of the thrust needed during the initial two minutes of each Space Shuttle flight. The ISS program is the largest scientific cooperative effort in history, drawing on the resources and expertise of 16 nations