Since the commencement of aviation, pilots have been painting elaborate designs on their planes. And the tradition goes back much further than that.
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The Patriot
Nose art is an indelible armed services tradition. Air crews today still decorate their shipping with customized designs—though the images may exist a flake more politically right than the racy pinups of yesteryear. And the trend dates back well beyond the classic World War 2 designs that fabricated upwardly the gilded historic period of nose art.
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Drone Art
These days even drones have nose fine art. This pattern past Staff Sgt. Michael Middleton, painted on an RQ-4 Global Militarist, honors Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Lee Archer, ane of the first African-American military aviators.
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Honorary Pilot
Aric Lassegard, seen here, got his name added every bit an honorary pilot below the Dakota Posse nose art of a B-1 bomber. Aric was an honorary member of the 34th Bomb Squadron during their Aircrew for a Day program at Ellsworth Air Strength Base, S Dakota.
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Warthog Shark
Here's an A-ten Thunderbolt at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan sporting eyes and shark teeth. According to the Air Forcefulness, the markings symbolize the legacy of this squadron dating dorsum to the Flying Tigers of WWII. The Flying Tigers got the shark motif from the High german Luftwaffe, but the fashion for painting faces dates back fifty-fifty further.
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Warthog Shark 2
Another shark-themed A-10.
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Winged Skull
The side of an Ac-130 gunship based at Hurlburt Field, Florida.
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That'south All, Folks
Nose fine art on an FB-111 at March Air Force Base, California, every bit seen in 1988.
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Mission Symbols
Aircraft still have mission completed symbols—commonly in the shape of a bomb—to commemorate a mission completed. Here, the B-two Spirit of Arizona gets a decal for each Functioning Iraqi Freedom mission added alongside the OAF decals (Operation Centrolineal Force) it earned in the former Yugoslavia in 1999.
For a more classic example, check out the WWII Halifax bomber Pinocchio, seen here with bomb symbols for missions over Germany and ice cream cones for raids on Italy—and a key for the 21st mission.
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WWII: Regulation 35-22
The U.S. Navy and Marines banned nose art, but under Ground forces Air Force Regulation 35-22 of August 1944, it was permitted for morale purposes so long as it was painted with a "sense of decency." The new regulation did piffling to stem the tide of scantily-clad females, equally on the B-17 Flying Fortress Liberty Belle.
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Memphis Belle
Here, the B-17 that portrayed the famous WWII Memphis Belle in the 1990 film.
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WWII: Bocks Car
Bock'southward Car was the punning name given to the B-29 Superfortress originally commanded past Captain Frederick Bock. This aeroplane dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, an occasion commemorated on its nose fine art.
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Globe War I
At the first of WWI, European aviators decorated their aircraft with distinctive designs like the all-ruby plane of German Baron von Richthofen. And there were more than elaborate artworks, often based on classical themes such as Medusa—or, in the example of this Belgian Farman F40, Charlie Chaplin.
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Figureheads
Of course, the idea of nose art predates aircraft, of form. In the 18th century elaborate send figureheads, often in the shape of naked women, were in vogue. Women were said to be bad luck on lath, but at that place was supposedly a superstition that the prototype of a naked woman could calm a storm. At least, that was the alibi they used.
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Dragon Ships
Before the days of figureheads, the prow of a transport sometimes carried a carved ornamentation representing an fauna or a monster to scare off evil spirits and frighten enemies. Though the sight of a fast Viking dragon ship carrying a raiding party of 100 warriors was probably at least as terrifying to villagers equally an bodily dragon.
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Eye of the Trireme
Greek Triremes, so-called for their iii banks of oars, dominated naval battles in the Mediterranean from the 8th century B.C. forward. Many had painted designs such as snakes or boars, simply about all had painted marble mounted higher up the ram to make a face. It was perchance the earliest known example of olfactory organ art.
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