Iowa ANG F-89J Scorpion Acrylic Print

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"Iowa ANG F-89J Scorpion" 2010
F-89J Scorpion of the 124th FIS, Iowa ANG, 1967.

The F-89 was a 1950s era Air Defense Interceptor. Too slow to chase down the potential Soviet bombers heading into North American Airspace, it was initally equipped with wing tip tanks that held dozens of rockets, which were to be launched en masse at the formation of bombers. By the1960s these dozens of missiles were replaced by an equally desperate gambit - a pair of small nuclear tipped weapons. Yep, a local nuclear blast would knock the bombers out of the sky. Good thing the world never had to find out how effective this plan was!

Stu Shepherd has been an aviation illustrator for nearly twenty years. His work is mostly known by box cover art on aircraft model kits made by Revell and Monogram, for whom he has done over 300 images (now including car box art and Star Wars items too). Stu has also worked in the Computer Game and Internet Community industries. He also creates art in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Genres, with his strength in spaceship design and environments. Stu just completed his first novel Sci-fi, and will soon complete his second. He lives in Central California.