The airplane nose art presented the face of aggression, a bit of psychological warfare intended to intimidate, created with a few ounces of paint slathered on aluminum. World War II’s legendary ...

Without any surviving photos of its original nose art, the team undertook ... as a fierce fighter aircraft. The lettering, sourced from a 1941 typeface book, ensures historical accuracy.

Selecting from a book of Vargas pin-up girls ... For the rest, Jen would use 1-Shot lettering enamel to complete the nose art on the aircraft. Working from roughly 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and with ...

In a display of defiance, many individual pilots used nose art to challenge the system. They often altered their aircraft without permission from the command, effectively thumbing their nose (art ...

"This truly is a source of morale and pride, especially for the dedicated crew chief to know that they have a little mark of themselves on the airplane ... in our unit." Nose art caught on ...

“But the whole idea of `nose art’ grew and grew after the war started – and it quickly reached its zenith in the Pacific.” Airplane art didn’t begin with American flyers. The Italians ...

The Americans liked to paint women on their planes, and many aircraft like bombers featured unique nose art. Whether pilots and crews drew pinups or painted sharks on their military aircraft ...

Many combat aircraft hunting enemy radars with ... sported the peculiar nose art according to the book MiG-29 & MiG-35 by Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov. Arguably, other Ukrainian MiG-29s ...

Flights and tours start at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. According to planesofthepast.com, airplane nose art dates to World War I, when images were unit or company insignia. During WWII ...

“This truly is a source of morale and pride, especially for the dedicated crew chief to know that they have a little mark of themselves on the airplane ... unit.” Nose art caught on ...