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Heritage to Horizons: Air Force documents history through art

This 1963 painting by artist Keith Ferris, entitled "Sunset Refueling at 30,000 Feet," featuring a B-52 Stratofortress and a KC-135R Stratotanker, was the third painting Mr. Ferris donated to the Air Force Art Program. Mr. Ferris has officially been an aviation artist since the year the Air Force became a service in 1947, and has been one of the longest participating artists in the program since it began in 1950. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Heritage to Horizons: Air Force documents history through art

This painting entitled "B-52 Air Refueling" from the Air Force Art Program collection was artist Keith Ferris's first submission to the program in 1961. Mr. Ferris has been an aviation artist associated with the Air Force since 1947 and is a long-standing contributor to the program. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Heritage to Horizons: Air Force documents history through art

Artists James Consor, Priscilla Messner-Patterson and Christine Murphy take reference photos July 25 during a visit to McChord Air Force Base, Wash., for the Air Mobility Rodeo 2007. The artists are with the Air Force Art Program and will use the photos to document Air Force activities through paintings and other media. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)

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Operation Allied Force

A weapons technician prepares an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Aviano Air Base, Italy, for the next sortie in support of NATO Operation Allied Force, March 27, 1999. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Mitch Fuqua)

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Operation Allied Force

A weapons technician prepares an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Aviano Air Base, Italy, for the next sortie in support of NATO Operation Allied Force, March 27, 1999. (U.S. photo/Senior Airman Mitch Fuqua)

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Operation Allied Force

A weapons tecnician uploads an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Aviano Air Base, Italy, for the next sortie in support to NATO in the Operation Allied Force, March 27, 1999. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Mitch Fuqua)

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

Deployed to Baghdad International Airport, the 31st Security Forces Squadron delegation photo from Aviano Air Base, Italy, get together for a group photo in 2005. (Courtesy photo)

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31st Fighter Wing security forces

Airmen from the 31st Security Forces Squadron at Aviano Air Base, Italy, group together outside the base's guardmount building. (Courtesy photo)

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Air war over Bosnia

Capt. Scott O'Grady talks to Airmen from the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base, Italy, about his experience after evading capture in 1995. Capt. O'Grady, with the 555th Fighter Squadron at Aviano, ejected from his F-16 over Bosnia, after his aircraft was hit by a rocket from the Bosnian Serb Army. He eluded capture by Serbian forces for five days before being picked up by a U.S. Marine Corps rescue helicopter. (Courtesy photo)

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Operation Allied Force

A F-16 Fighting Falcon flies over Aviano Air Base, Italy, as it departs for an NATO Operation Allied Force mission in the Balkans March 27, 1999. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Mitch Fuqua)

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Chief Murray at Airman Leadership School

Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Gerald R. Murray mentors to students at the Aviano Air Base, Italy, Airman Leadership School. He talked with the students on the importance of professional military education and their future role as supervisors. (U.S. photo/Airman 1st Class Nichole Adamowicz)

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Top enlisted visits Vietnam

The Air Force's first Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force, Paul Airey, [fifth from right] chats with Airmen Nov. 2, 1968 at the Noncommissioned Officers Club at Tuy Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam. The 31st Tactical Fighter Wing was the host unit at Tuy Hoa. (Courtesy photo)

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

1st Lt. Roseline Salazar and Staff Sgt. Philip Krug work on a tail fin assembly before assembling a joint direct attack munition at Balad Air Base, Iraq, Oct. 9, 2005. Both Airmen are assigned to the 322nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron and deployed from Aviano Air Base, Italy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Shannon Kluge)

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Best combat-ready rate in 1959

(From left) Lt. Col. Albert Christopher, 25th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron commander, Senior Master Sgt. Thomas F. Bell, 25 FIS maintenance line chief, Staff Sgt. Jacobs, a 25th FIS crew chief, and Capt H. A. Pfeiffer, 25th FIS maintenance officer, join hands after the 25th FIS at Osan Air Base, South Korea attained its best combat ready aircraft rate in 1959. (Courtesy photo)

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F-100 Super Sabre over Tuy Hoa, Vietnam

An F-100 Super Sabre flies over the base at Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam in 1967. (Courtesy photo)

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F-100F Super Sabre

A F-100 Super Sabre sits on the flightline at Homestead Air Force Base, Fla. The Super Sabre transferred to Aviano Air Base, Itlay, in 1994. (Courtesy photo)

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F-100D Super Sabre

A F-100D Super Sabre, assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing, is ready for flight on the Toul Air Base, France, flightline in the summer of 1959. (Courtesy photo)

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

Tech. Sgt. Michael Knight, deployed from Aviano Air Base, Italy, and Staff Sgt. Jesse Gietzen, deployed from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., review technical orders before assembling a joint direct attack munition Oct. 9, 2005. Both Airmen are assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron at Balad Air Base, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Shannon Kluge)

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Preparing for the mission

Senior Airman Gaylon Hardman (right), a crew chief with the 332rd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, waits to assist F- 16 pilot Capt. Bart Wilbanks prepare for a combat mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom Sept. 20, 2005. Both Airmen are from the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base, Italy, and deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj Robert Couse-Baker)

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Controlling Aviano Air Base airspace

Italian and U.S. Air Force radar controllers, Staff Sgts. Marcello Zappia (left) and Matthew Sandner, communicate through a vast network of people and equipment within the radar approach control or RAPCON at Aviano Air Base, Italy, in June 2003. The RAPCON prevents the safe operation of aircraft in the base's air space, coordinates the movements of air traffic and minimizes the delay of aircraft traveling in and out of the airspace. Sergeant Sandner is assigned to the 31st Operations Support Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Isaac L. Freeman)

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