by
Robert Taylor
Overall Print Size: 34½” wide x 23½” high
The Limited Edition
$320.00
Edition Size - 750
The biggest, fastest, most powerful fighter of its day, the McDonnell
Phantom was an awesome war machine that came to dominate aerial combat
for over two decades. It may have been the size of many World War II bombers
but it could out-perform anything that crossed its path; it was quicker,
could turn faster, was better equipped with electronics, carried more ordnance
than anything comparable, and it had an unbelievable rate of climb. The
F-4 Phantom was the benchmark against which every fighter in the world
came to be judged; it was simply the best. Robert Taylor’s powerful new
painting shows Steve Ritchie, first into action, flying his lead F-4D Phantom
through a hail of deadly enemy flak as he exits the target area after a
typical FAST FAC mission on enemy installations in North Vietnam, 1972.
Behind him a vast trail of devastation marks the mission’s progress, as
his fellow Phantom crews continue to wreak havoc with their heavy ordnance,
the target area exploding in a series of mighty detonations.
Each print is personally signed by the highly decorated Vietnam USAF
fighter pilot
Ace Steve Ritchie, together with his special guest, Capt. John Madden.
