Farmer's Nightmare by Keith Ferris

Limited Edition Print

Edition Size: 850

Image Size: 32"w x 13 1/8"h.

Signed by the artist.

Boeing P-12Bs of the 43rd School Squadron at Kelly Field, Texas, practice "strange field" landings in a farmer's field in 1932, with the artist's father at the controls of aircraft number 2.

"For the first six years of my life, I lived within 100 feet of Kelly Field in southwest Texas, home to the 43rd School Squadron, Advanced Flying School Pursuit Section. The young pilots in their P-12s were a farmer's nightmare, practicing their landings time and again in the middle of local farmers' fields. My father, an instructor at the school, can be seen in 'Farmer's Nightmare' sitting at the controls of aircraft number 2. He waits as two of his students begin their takeoff rolls, while up above another instructor with his students prepares to 'cut' engines."