Gunfighters of the New West

This Lockheed F-104 Starfighter aviation art print 'Gunfighters of the New West' by Heinz Krebs commemorates the decade long pilot training of German Air Force pilots at Luke AFB, Arizona. Aptly called “the missile with a man in it”, designed by the immortal Clarence Kelly Johnson and built by Lockheed at their mysterious Skunk Works facility in California, it was designed to be a hunter and fighter from the outset - the shape and form of a swift killer, a gunfighter of the modern day and age. Patrolling the skies over the Western United States, the very countryside that its 'predecessors' rode across on horseback, its task was to track down and intercept intruding high speed enemy aircraft.

Printed on acid-free heavy stock. Supplied with Certificate of authenticity.

 

• 1000 signed and numbered by the Artist
• including 104 copies (sold out) additionally signed by the Chief of Staff Air Force Germany at that time -  Günther Rall, Lockheed chief test pilot Anthony W. LeVier, and Chuck Yeager, who was the first man to break the sound barrier.