 Nose art on a B-17 Flying Fortress Nose art is a painting or design done on the fuselage near the nose of a warplane, usually for decorative purposes. Nose art is a form of aircraft graffiti. Image File history File links Nose art of a girl riding a bomb on a B17. ...
Image File history File links Nose art of a girl riding a bomb on a B17. ...
The American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber. ...
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The fuselage can be short, and seemingly unaerodynamic, as in this Christen Eagle 2 The fuselage (from the French fuselé spindle-shaped) is an aircrafts main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. ...
Military aircraft are airplanes used in warfare. ...
Aircraft graffiti is graffiti on the outside of an aircraft or in the cargo bins, usually written by airport ground staff. ...
History
The practice of putting personalized decorations on fighting aircraft originated with Italian and German pilots. The first recorded piece of nose art was a sea monster painted on the nose of an Italian flying boat in 1913. This was followed by the popular tradition of painting mouths underneath the propeller spinner, initiated by the German pilots in World War I. After these beginnings, though, most nose art was conceived and produced by the aircraft ground crews, not the pilots. Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ...
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While the nose art in World War I were mainly embellished or extravagant squad insignia, true nose art started to occur in World War II, which is considered the golden age of nose art by many observers, with both Axis and Allied pilots taking part. During the height of the war, nose-artists were in very high demand in the United States Air Force and were paid quite well for their services while Air Force officials tolerated the nose art in an effort to boost the morale of the crew. This lack of restraint combined with the stresses of war, and high probability of death resulted in an excess of nose art that has yet to be repeated. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
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Due to changes in military policies and changing attitudes toward representation of women, the amount of nose art has been in steady decline since the Korean War. Nose art underwent a revival, however, during Operation Desert Storm and has been going strong since Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Combatants United Nations: Republic of Korea United States United Kingdom Canada Australia The Netherlands France Philippines Turkey Ethiopia Communist states: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea People’s Republic of China Soviet Union Commanders Syngman Rhee Chung Il Kwon Douglas MacArthur Mark W. Clark Matthew Ridgway Kim Il-sung Choi...
Combatants U.S.-led coalition Iraq Commanders George H. W. Bush, Norman Schwarzkopf, Colin Powell Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan Al-Majid, Hussein Kamel Strength 660,000 ~545,000 Casualties 345 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 - 100,000 dead, 100,000 - 300,000 wounded The 1991 Gulf War (also Persian...
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Nose art is largely a military tradition, but airliners operated by the airlines of Virgin Group feature "Virgin Girls" on the nose as part of their livery. // Virgin Refreshed Corporate logo of the Virgin Group introduced 2006 Usage of these images is restricted. ...
Purpose The reasons for nose art are many but were often done for humor, aesthetics, to taunt the enemy, as a good luck charm or for other superstitious reasons. Practical reasons do also exist, as decorated aircraft were easier to personally identify. Many commanders also considered decorating the planes and giving them a sense of individuality to be a boost on unit morale. Superstition is a set of behaviors that may be faith based, or related to magical thinking, whereby the practitioner believes that the future, or the outcome of certain events, can be influenced by certain of his or her behaviors. ...
Morale is a term for the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal. ...
Subject matter The subject matter in nose art varies but largely stayed within a few mainstay topics, namely the cartoon characters and female pin-up. The females occurred in various stages of dress, or undress, and were very popular. The style evolved and became more wild and provocative. As a result, the Army Air Force tried to restore a sense of decorum with AAF Regulation 35-22 in August 1944. The regulation didn't prohibit nose art, but did try to, unsuccessfully, institute a "sense of decency." A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ...
A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. ...
According to some accounts, the farther the planes and crew were from headquarters or from the public eye, the racier the art. For instance, nudity was more prevalent with aircraft based in the South Pacific than of those in England. [1] For the fictional superstate in George Orwells novel, see Oceania (Nineteen Eighty-Four). ...
Other popular topics included animals, nicknames, hometowns, and various patriotic imagery. The Soviet Air Force decorated their planes with imagery of history, mythical beasts and patriotic motifs.
The planes were also decorated with bombs, "scalps" in form of enemy insignia, such as swastikas or rising sun flags, to illustrate the number of kills, or bombing missions the crew had been on. Some crews also used locomotives for train attacks, camels for cargo missions, broomsticks for "sweep" operations and sitting ducks for decoy missions. Major Eino Luukkanen (Finnish Air Force), 54 kills, used beer labels as victory insignia for his Brewster. Eino Luukkanen (1909-1964) was a Finnish fighter ace in World War 2. ...
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Photos Nose art on the Miss Patricia, September 1943. Image File history File links Close up of nose art on the Miss Patricia, taken September 23, 1943 Source Source page: http://www. ...
| Nose art on a CH-47D Chinook from Company F, "River City Hookers", 106th Aviation, Iowa Army National Guard during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 664 KB) As of 24 April 2005, the last known location of 86-01653 was assigned to Company F - River City Hookers, 106th Aviation, Army National Guard. ...
| Nose art on Boeing 747 G-VROS ,"English Rose". Image File history File links Download high resolution version (696x667, 95 KB)Nose art on G-VROS English Rose Photographed at Gatwick Airport by user:Superjumbo April 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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External links - Nose art history and paintings
- Nose art history
- Site with photos of historic nose art
- Nose art photos and illustrations
- RAF webpage illustrating Gulf War Nose art in the Tornado fleet
- Strawberry Bitch, B-24D at the National Museum of the United States Air Force
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