I rendered this painting through the use of photos that I had taken in mid December 1983. I was at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, adjacent to Tampa city limits. The host unit is the 56th Tactical Training Wing. I was back seated in a F-16B two-seat combat trainer. The plane I was photographing and later rendered in the painting is the F-16A single-seat Tactical Fighter. Both planes were flown by members of the 62nd TFTS. I used the same plane at different angles to give the impression of several planes banking away from a formation flight. I chose to render the painting as a night time flight rather than the day time flight which had really taken place. I did this because I wanted to give it some special lighting effects on the Cumulonimbus clouds. I also wanted to depict the fact that the F-16 can make air-to-ground attacks under visual, blind or electro-optical delivery conditions, by day or night and to some degree in adverse weather.