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Robert Taylor is regarded as one of the masters of aviation art. He lives and works in Bath, England. Bekaa Valley Gunfight depicts a combat between an F-16 and a MiG-21 that occurred on 9 June 1991 over the Bekaa Valley in Syria. "In the air battles that ensued over the valley during this and the following two days," Taylor says, "the Israeli jets brought down over eighty Syrian aircraft, without loss to their own force. When studying the various shapes of modern aircraft, I often wonder why one can be so beautiful and another so ugly. I suppose it is largely due to performance requirements, and the results of wind tunnel testing. It is said that computers design the shapes of aircraft today, but I am sure the F-16 was designed by an artist!"
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