Don Feight
Feight Studios was established in 1994 by Paula & Don Feight inspired by the aerospace and aviation art Don was producing at his job at Lockheed Martin. Don has worked at Lockheed Martin for over thirty-three years as a graphic artist. Airplanes have been a lifelong passion from his early years living on Air Force bases, model building, and drawing airplanes, through the eventual building and flying of a homebuilt Glasair RG aircraft later as an adult.
Much of the inspiration for Don's aviation art comes from his experiences during as a pilot. The low-level flight over the water in "Madman," the blue hole in the dark storm clouds in "Lightning," and the spinning ground in "Performance" are a few examples of experiences of actual flying used to produce aviation art images.
Unlike many aviation artists, Don's passion is for the aircraft and flying above all else.
"Star Fighter" Open Edition Print by Don Feight
Designed by Kelly Johnson and the famed Lockheed Skunk Works in the early 1950s, the F-104 was introduced to the world as "the missile with a man in it." The striking Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was unlike anything the world had ever seen and promised to be an ultimate interceptor that was small, light in weight and had stunning straight-line performance. The prototype first flew in 1954 and went supersonic only eight years after the X-1 first broke the sound barrier, but it was four years before the F-104A was operational. The early 104s were easily the hottest aircraft around and in 1958 specially prepared Starfighters set new world speed and altitude records of 1,400 mph and 91,250 feet. The F-104 was never agile enough to become what its designers wanted but it did evolve into a sophisticated all-weather ground attack aircraft. There were 2,439 F-104s built in eight countries between 1954 and 1979.
24" by 18" Overall, including a 1" White Border - $50.00
All artwork is subject to availability at time of order. Although seller strives to remain currrent as to inventory, seller reserves the right to cancel a sale if item is no longer available at time of purchase.
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