with Air Force units to the four corners of the globe both during peacetime and combat operations. Over the years the artist flew in nearly every aircraft in the USAF inventory; his final flight was an hour-long ACM training mission in the F-16 … the fourth Viper mission of his long career.
Rick has also served United States Space Command, Space Operations Command and Space Systems Command, as well as the United States Navy and the Navy Fighter Weapons School, TOPGUN.
Herter’ s military work also hangs in the collections of foreign nation militaries such as: Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Taiwan, The United Kingdom, Netherlands, Singapore, UAE and several others.
WORLD RECORD
Rick’ s many years of service capturing the history of the United States Armed Forces, only tells part of the story. Herter’ s largest and most accomplished painting is in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Commissioned in 2003 and finished in 2004, his Guinness World Record-sized mural,“ The Century of Flight” is located at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo Aerospace and Space Museum and measures an astounding 26,000 square feet of hand-painted mural.
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