About the artist
Tom Tullis has been an aviation artist and historian for over three decades. He has illustrated over 100 books on military aviation and served as the official profile artist of the U.S. National Aviation Hall of Fame for 10 years. His aviation profiles exhibit a technical accuracy and realism rarely seen today. Each aircraft is painstakingly researched for technical accuracy and historical authenticity, with much of his knowledge of 1940’s aircraft construction techniques garnered from first hand accounts from the men who built those machines and those restoring those same machines today. His work has been published by such notable publishers as Air Classics, Classic Publications, Chevron Publications, Flight Journal, Eagle Editions, Hikoki Publications, Monogram Publishing, Osprey Publishing, and Squadron-Signal Publications.
“The amount of detail that Tom Tullis puts into his profile drawings are not unlike the accuracy expected in the finest museum aircraft restoration. I can relate to the care he places in duplicating rivet patterns, sizes and shapes of markings, to the careful matching to original colors. Tullis is certainly to be regarded among the best in his field of technical illustrations because of his unwavering attention to the slightest detail.”
Robert C. Mikesh
Former Senior Curator
National Air and Space Museum
“Tom gets it all done in his aircraft paintings: nuts, bolts, colors and numbers. There is no guesswork about it. As I always say, right is right, and wrong is wrong. There is no between!”
General Joseph J. Foss
USMC ace, and Governor of South Dakota
“This is, in my opinion, one of the best P-40B illustrations I’ve seen.”
Maj. General Charles R. Bond
A.V.G. Flying Tigers Ace
“Your renderings of my P-51 and X-1 are wonderful. So much so that, as you know, I appreciate you allowing me to use them for my letterhead.”
Brig. General Charles E. Yeager
USAAF ace, and USAF test pilot