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Witchcraft Takeoff Roll Wood Print
by Rick Pisio
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Witchcraft Takeoff Roll wood print by Rick Pisio. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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The Collings Foundation B-24 Liberator Witchcraft gets airborne while on a stop in Livermore, California. The Liberator was built in 1944 by... more
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The Collings Foundation B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" gets airborne while on a stop in Livermore, California. The Liberator was built in 1944 by Consolidated Aircraft in Fort Worth, Texas, and originally delivered to the US Army Air Forc. It was later transferred to the Royal Air Force and saw combat in the Pacific Theater. After the World War II the B-24 was abandoned by the British in Khanpur, India. In 1948 the Indian Air Force restored 36 B-24's to operational status and utilized them until 1968.
The restoration of the B-24 was started in 1985 and involved complete disassembly of the plane and work on 80% of the Liberators 1.2 million parts. The work required overhaul or replacement of the entire hydraulic system as well as cables, hardware, and bearings. The overhaul also required replacement of over 420,000 rivets.
In 2004 the Collings Foundation chose to honor the 8th Air Force and all who served in England as well as the European Theater of Operations by repain...
About Rick Pisio
It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...
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