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Each of the prints can be hand-customized by the artist with your unit markings, nose art, tail number, etc. All prints are $80 (standard) or $125 (customized). Shipping Included.

LZ Series Limited Edition Prints

Size: 20” X 24”

“Passing the Torch” depicts the tradition of U.S. Army Air Assault that was pioneered and forged in battle during the Vietnam War, and is carried on so ably and proudly by modern-day forces. In the foreground, a UH-60 Blackhawk pulls pitch after discharging soldiers, as one looks back through the rotorwash as if to Acknowledge the Vietnam era Huey and soldiers that went before him.

Passing the Torch

Size: 20” X 28”

“Magic Carpet Ride” To this day, the distant thump of a Huey’s rotor blades stirs deep emotions in all of those that she carried during the Vietnam War. This print captures the Huey in one of it’s most fulfilling roles, bringing a load of grunts back from the bush. Depicted is a combat workhorse with muddy skids, stowed seats, chipped paint, patched bullet holes, and a precious cargo of tired, tattered, dirty, but happy infantrymen. The crew chief and gunner keep a watchful eye out for any who would stand between these men and home.

Magic Carpet Ride

Size: 20” X 24”

“Heavy Metal” a CH-54 Tarhe sling loads a 155mm howitzer into a firebase as a Huey gunship flies cover above. Available in standard version, as shown, or customized version with unit markings and aircraft number of your choice.

Heavy Metal

Size: 20” X 24”

“Dustoff” This print offers a “grunts-eye view” of an approaching Huey medevac, with the crew chief/medic positioned on the skid ready to render aid to the wounded soldier. This print is available in the standard medevac version shown on the left, or customized with various cross designs unique to medevac units. The print can also be customized as a Slick, with M-60 doorguns and unit markings of your choice.

Dustoff—That others may live

Standard Medevac Version

Customized to Slick configuration
(B/101 Kingsmen shown)

Size: 20” X 28”

“Iron Dance” The CH-47 Chinook was the Army’s primary medium lift helicopter used in Vietnam, and updated models are still in service today! Iron Dance depicts a CH-47A slingloading a 105mm Howitzer into a firebase. Customized versions can be modified to depict B and C models and include unit markings.

Iron Dance

Have Guns, Will Travel - Standard Version

Sold Out-No Longer Available

Size: 20” X 28”

“Have Guns, Will Travel” A team of Huey UH-1C Huey gunships working a target in Vietnam. The standard version depicts a UH-1C with 7-shot rocket pods and miniguns. Customized versions can be ordered with armament and unit markings of your choice. The print can also be modified to depict a UH-1B.

Have Guns, Will Travel

Joe Kline Aviation Art

Personalized Aviation and Military Art

Size: 20” X 28”

“Army Aviation, Vietnam” This print honors the accomplishment and sacrifice of U.S. Army Aviation during the Vietnam War. Each type of Army aircraft, both rotary and fixed-wing, used during the conflict is depicted. The centerpiece of the print is a four-man flight crew, under a Purple Heart Medal, representing the loss of over 4,000 Army air crew members during the war.

The accompanying certificate of authenticity lists the aircraft, and numbers (over 4,700) lost , by type, during the war.

Army Aviation, Vietnam

Size: 20” X 28”

“God’s Own Lunatics” is the phrase made famous by noted and author Joe Galloway, as a description of respect and admiration for helicopter crews, and their willingness to go anywhere, anytime, in support of ground combat forces. Galloway witnessed this dedication first-hand during the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965. In this print, the artist has captured the teamwork, commitment and devotion to duty required to complete the mission of extracting a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol under heavy enemy Fire.

God’s Own Lunatics

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Size: 22” X 30”

“Riders on the Storm” This print was the first released in the LZ Series. It depicts the choreographed mayhem repeated countless thousands of times during the Vietnam War of a combat assault, as the lead ship departs the Landing Zone while others prepare to land in the background.

Riders on the Storm

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Chariots of Fire

Size: 22” X 30”

“Chariots of Fire” “Rolling in Hot” was music to the ears of beleaguered ground forces as AH-1G Cobra gunships trained their rockets, grenades, miniguns and sometimes 20mm cannon on the enemy. This print shows two AH-1G Cobras beginning their break as an OH-6A LOH skirts the jungle canopy below. This print can be customized with unit markings, as well as armament loads and weapons configurations of your choice.

Size: 20” X 28”

“Good Vibrations” is the artist’s newest print depicting a UH-1H Huey Slick departing a jungle landing zone as others approach and touch down in the LZ in the background. The aircraft in this print can be customized with nose art and unit markings, and can also be modified to depict the UH-1D model used earlier in the war.

Good Vibrations

Guns Up

Size: 20” X 28”

“Guns Up” is the artist’s newest print depicting a UH-1C Huey Gunships pulling pitch to lead a flight of Slicks into a hot LZ. The aircraft in this print can be customized with nose art and unit markings, and can also be modified to depict the UH-1B model . Weapons configurations of your choice can be added.

Release Date June 23, 2009