“Into the Sunlit Splendor: The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips” features over 130 paintings in a definitive collection of his aviation art. This deluxe Collector’s Edition book comes jacketed and slipcased with a special, bound-in certificate sheet signed by the artist. The collector’s book is accompanied by a fine art giclee canvas, “Lightning from the Sun,” signed by the artist and numbered.

About "Lightning from the Sun," Phillips comments, "The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is the first fighter with two engines. Nearly 10,000 P-38s were produced, in eighteen variants. Known to the Germans as the 'Forked Tailed Devil,' a leading P-38 Ace called it, 'one of the great aircraft of WWII.' And Japanese Ace Saburo Sakai said, 'I was astonished to find an American aircraft that could outrun, outclimb and outdive our Zero...'"