Short:    F-14 vs AH-64 dogfight pic
Uploader: zotron@dte.vsnl.net.in (Zotin Khuma)
Author:   zotron@dte.vsnl.net.in (Zotin Khuma)
Type:     Pix/art

Ok, ok, who needs a long readme for a simple picture ? Well, if your
house isn't on fire and you have time to read on, maybe you'll 
understand.

I drew this picture with Brilliance 2 as an example of Amiga graphics 
to be included in a magazine article on Amigas. When Gateway belched 
out a lot of hot air about Amiga's rebirth in 1999, I wrote some 
comments to a popular Indian computer magazine that carried a brief 
article about it. They responded by requesting me (twice) to write a 
full-length article on Amigas, and I enthusiastically sent them a 
fairly lengthy effort......here was a golden opportunity to spread the 
Amiga gospel among the Indian computing public which is mostly unaware 
of the Amiga's very existence.

Alas, Gateway did an about-face and the mag's editors lost interest. 
So here it is - the pic, not the whole article, of course. Part of the
caption was to have read : 

" ..... Here, the F-14 Tomcat is pursuing an AH-64 Apache attack 
helicopter which is not as easy a prey as it might at first seem. The 
wily chopper pilot is blinding the fighter pilot and confusing the IR 
sensors of his AIM-9L Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles by staying 
between the Tomcat and the sun. Fortunately for him, the F-14 is not 
armed with the more sophisticated Phoenix AAMs :-) .. Amigas are FUN !!"

I had only a three-view (front, top & side) picture of the Tomcat, 
so I had to use my imagination to draw the rear view. The Apache too, 
but this is only a small silhoutte, so it's much easier. Brilliance's
colour gradient function came in very handy for the shades.

The picture is in JPEG format, saved with Magnus Holmgren's Visage as 
the default tool. So if you have installed and assigned Visage in your 
HD, then you can view the picture simply by double-clicking on it. 
Otherwise you can view it with any JPEG viewer.

All rights reserved. This picture may be included in Aminet CD and for
any non-commercial collection, provided credit is given to me, and 
it'll be nice to be informed. For commercial use, please talk to me 
first.

Any comments welcome.

Zotin Khuma                        zotron@dte.vsnl.net.in
Circuit Road, Khatla,
Aizawl - 796001
Mizoram, India.