USAF Thunderbirds

While reviewing an Air Force Art Show in 1962 with an Air Force Officer, Keith was asked to comment on a very nice landscape painting with the Tbirds in the foreground.  Keith’s response was complimentary to the landscape, but he pointed out the way to paint the Thunderbirds, in his opinion, would be from within the demonstration team rather than from some distant mountain.

You’d do that, the officer asked, you bet I would my dad replied.

A few weeks later Keith received orders and found himself strapped into the back seat of an F-100F as the team returned from their East Coast tour to home base at Nellis AFB.  These paintings Honor the Thunderbirds as Keith documents his deployments with the team, many team members have been life long friends, from the early 1960s through today’s team.

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