For Sale Limited Edition RF-4C Phantom II Prints (Benefits Veterans Foundation)

[JM_ART]

I’m happy to announce the availability of this limited edition print to benefit the East Mississippi Veterans Foundation! “Phantoms Inbound Key” depicts McDonnell-Douglas RF-4C Phantom II, S/N 67-0438, flown by the 186th Tactical Reconnaissance Group/153rd Tactical Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of the Mississippi Air National Guard at Key Field, in Meridian, Mississippi. The East Mississippi Veterans Foundation is bringing 0438 home to Meridian to restore and proudly display at the East Mississippi Veterans Memorial Park, adjacent to historic Key Field!

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This limited edition of 100 signed and numbered 24x18 inch prints, commissioned by the East Mississippi Veterans Foundation, depicts 0438 being escorted by another iconic Phantom, once flown by the 153rd TRS, towards touchdown at Key Field. Proceeds from the sales of this print will be used to restore and display 0438 as a monument to our honored veterans. Please click on the image above, or go to John Matthews Art to get yours!

Many thanks! Safe Skies!

-John

 

[hemi71x]

Thank's for the heads up, on those prints.

Know the RF-4C Phantom well.

I was the crew chief on this Phantom.

But they took it out of the aircraft boneyard in Arizona, turned it into a drone, then shot it down under missile practice, off the west coast of Florida.

Now littering the Atlantic ocean floor, in a bazillion pieces.

 

[JM_ART]

Thank's for the heads up, on those prints.

Know the RF-4C Phantom well.

I was the crew chief on this Phantom.

But they took it out of the aircraft boneyard in Arizona, turned it into a drone, then shot it down under missile practice, off the west coast of Florida.

Now littering the Atlantic ocean floor, in a bazillion pieces.

Ouch! Well, I guess better to end as a target drone than wasting away in AZ? Talk about your Viking funerals! (Ha!) Of course, since you were the CC on that one, I'm sure you had some rather personal feelings about how it met its end.

No problem re: the word on the prints. They're a good bunch of folks and are getting ready to have 0438 trucked to Meridian, MS from AMARG. It was a pleasure to do the artwork for them knowing the money is being used to preserve a Phantom. We sold ten of them today on the first day of the print's release!


Safe skies!

-John

 

[hemi71x]

Ya, it was kinda hard for awhile, after finding out my old Phantom got shot down over the Atlantic ocean.
Guess it was either that, or meeting it's fate in the boneyard, either with the claw, or guillotine, turning it into scrap metal.
And manned reconnaissance aircraft are a thing of the past, with the advent of reconnaissance drones, in the modern world.

 

[JM_ART]

Ya, it was kinda hard for awhile, after finding out my old Phantom got shot down over the Atlantic ocean.
Guess it was either that, or meeting it's fate in the boneyard, either with the claw, or guillotine, turning it into scrap metal.
And manned reconnaissance aircraft are a thing of the past, with the advent of reconnaissance drones, in the modern world.

Well, I always hate reading about great planes that get chopped up for scrap. Just as well she met her end being useful.

The benefit prints are selling well! 14 since Saturday with more orders trickling in!