Pioneers of Stealth Event Poster

    For about nine months, I have been working with an organization called The Pioneers of Stealth. You may not have heard about this organization because they didn’t technically exist for many decades. In the 1980 & 90s, if you called the Pentagon, they would say, “I have no idea who you are talking about.”  The man I worked with told me stories about his time at Area 51. This organization was super-secret at the time and was run out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Now we know all about stealth technology. This July, they dedicate monuments that would be on permanent display at the Museum of the United States Airforce next to Wright-Patt. They asked me to create a poster for the dedication event, which included the black granite monoliths. The main problem I had was timing. The monuments were supposed to be up by May and were not. The stainless-steel planes on top of each monument were supposed to be installed in June and were not. The dedication event was on Monday, July 17^th, and the stainless-steel planes were installed on Friday, July 7^th. Knowing there was a looming deadline, I created a photograph of the monuments without planes so the poster design could be finalized and approved. Then, when the aircraft was there, I had to create a new photo and slip it in place. My fear was that we might have a week of rain or overcast skies. Lucky for me, when I went out to photograph the monument, the clouds were big and puffy, and the sky was blue. We are fortunate in this country to have such organizations as the Pioneers of Stealth. These people were given an impossible task, and using grit and creativity, they accomplished what was asked of them, creating a plane that couldn’t be seen by radar.