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In this second episode of the series, we explore even more incredible WWII aircraft nose art and the personal stories behind them. Each painted aircraft carries emotion, personality, and memory from a ...
Let’s take a look at the JASSM and APKWS markings on the final four F-15E Strike Eagles of the 389th Fighter Squadron ...
Don Allen admires his handiwork as a "nose art" artist of World War II when he painted fanciful designs like this one, dubbed "Blondie," on the noses of U.S. fighter planes.
Most of the nose art created during the war was influenced by—or directly copied from—cheesecake pin-up posters from magazines likeEsquireandTrue, or from other sources like the Ridge Tool ...
The nose of a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II displays a painted set of eyes and teeth over the aircraft’s 30-mm. GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon during the 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron ...
Gary Velasco, of Ruckersville, has a passion for World War II history and aviation. For the past 25 years, he has made his living creating artistic reproductions of WWII airplane “nose art ...
Read about Nose Art for Roadsters and see pictures of Christy Wallic's painting for World War II aircraft-inspired rods, inside Street Rodder Magazine.
Nose art ranged from patriotic, in-your-face bravado to saucy double entendres featuring pictures of scantily clad, barely clothed, or sometimes buck naked women.
Team Dover's maintenance groups hosted an airplane nose art unveiling ceremony March 22 at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. The nose artwork, titled "Keep 'em Flying" by renowned artist Greg ...