Outrun the Thunder by John Shaw – Framed

Description

Last minute engine run-up and checks are performed on Habu 972 at Det 1, Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, Japan, prior to an operational reconnaissance sortie over the USSR’s naval port at Vladivostok. For over 21 years, Lockheed’s famed SR-71 Blackbird flew highly-classified missions all over the globe, gaining fame as the world’s fastest and highest flying aircraft.
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The painting Outrun the Thunder was completed in 2003, and was first featured during a reunion of SR-71 veterans. The back of the original oil painting and edition of lithographs was signed by an unprecedented 60 to 70-plus pilots and RSOs (Reconnaissance Systems Officers), representing approximately two-thirds of all the crews who ever flew the Blackbird during its operational career.

THE SIGNATURES

This release saw the participation of the following SR-71 Habu pilots and RSO’s, representing approximately two-thirds of all crews who flew the Blackbird during its operational history!  This framed lithograph is signed by the artist and a combination of fifty five individuals from the following list:

Lieutenant Colonel TONY P BEVACQUA
Colonel PAT BLEDSOE Jr
Colonel LARRY BOGGESS
Lieutenant Colonel BEN D. BOWLES
Lieutenant Colonel BLAIR BOZEK
Colonel CECIL BRAEDEN
Lieutenant Colonel NORB BUDZINSKI
Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM H BURK Jr.
Colonel BUZ CARPENTER
Colonel ALAN CIRINO
Colonel RICHARD GRAHAM
Lieutenant Colonel JIM GREENWOOD
Colonel HARLON A. HAIN
Major General PAT HALLORAN
Brigadier General RAY HAUPT
Colonel ROBERT HELT
Lieutenant Colonel DAVID HORNBAKER
Lieutenant Colonel DAN HOUSE
Lieutenant Colonel MORT JARVIS
Major MAC McKENDREE
Lieutenant Colonel ED McKIM
Major JOHN MORGAN
Major General DOUGLAS T. NELSON
Lieutenant Colonel TERRY NEWGREEN
Lieutenant Colonel CURT OSTERHELD
Major TERRY PAPPAS
Lieutenant Colonel ALLEN PAYNE
Colonel ED PAYNE
Lieutenant Colonel ROBERT POWELL
Colonel TOM PUGH
Colonel BOB ROETCISONENDER
Lieutenant Colonel MAURY ROSENBERG
Lieutenant Colonel TED ROSS
Lieutenant Colonel TOM SCHMITTOU
Colonel JIM SHELTON
Colonel LEE M. SHELTON
Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES T. SOBER Jr.
Lieutenant Colonel DOUGLAS SOIFER
Lieutenant Colonel ROBERT SOWERS
Lieutenant Colonel BRUCE LIEBMAN
Colonel BOB LOCKE
Colonel PHIL LOIGNON
Colonel BARRY MACKEAN
Lieutenant Colonel JACK MADISON
Colonel COSIMO B. MALLOZZI
Lieutenant Colonel JOHN MANZI
Colonel GILBERT MARTINEZ
Lieutenant Colonel JOE MATTHEWS
Lieutenant Colonel TOM McCLEARY
Brigadier General HAROLD CONFER
Lieutenant Colonel BOB CROWDER
Lieutenant Colonel NEVIN CUNNINGHAM
Lieutenant Colonel TOM DANIELSON
Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES DAUBS
Lieutenant Colonel ROD DYCKMAN
Colonel DONALD R. EMMONS
Colonel TOM ESTES
Lieutenant Colonel BOB FOWLKES
Lieutenant Colonel JERRY GLASSER
Colonel FRANK STAMPF
Major General JOHN STORRIE
Lieutenant Colonel TOM VELTRI
Lieutenant Colonel JOHN J. VETH
Lieutenant Colonel DEWAIN VICK
Colonel JIM WILSON
Lieutenant Colonel ED YIELDING