#Aircraft nose art

[nocternalrandomness]

Nose art on a Lockheed S-3B Viking at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona

[admiralgiggles]

[monkeyssalad-blog]

B-29 Fu-Kemal-Tu by TK622 Via Flickr: B-29 S/N 42-24720 of the 676th Bomb Squad, 444th Bomb Group, 58th Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force. Photographed early in its career with just a few mission markers on its nose, likely while still deployed to the China Burma India Theater. The nose only shows two camel markings for crossing the Himalayas, nicknamed the Hump. Later images taken while deployed to Tinian show it with three camel markings. On 30 August 1945 Fu-Kemal-Tu was ditched in the Pacific while returning from a POW supply drop mission. The entire crew survived.

[a-4skyhawk]

Nose art featuring Woody Woodpecker giving the thumbs up in the B-24 Liberator.

[ghostwarriorrrr]

[contrary-to-ordinary]

World War II Aircraft Nose Art

North American B-25 Mitchell (thanks to @deutschland-im-krieg )

[lockheed-martin-unofficial]

Love this airplane. The Conc

[haarlow]

Vikki and Xandra vs the Bermuda Triangle AU

This started off just as a Xandra pin-up, then it was ww2 bomber nose art, then I thought I might as well draw Vikki as a pilot, then I learnt a whole heap about the WASPs (women who served as military pilots in ww2) and then I thought why not put the Bermuda Triangle in there as well? (Even though it wasn’t named that until 1964)

I ended up making a whole bunch of notes on the story and I wrote some ideas on scenes and dialogue. It’s a shame I don’t have the talent or time to turn it into a full-blown comic because I think it’s got some legs.

[stone-cold-groove]

That nose art isn’t going to paint itself.

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Keep those hunky boys flying!!!

[donotdestroy]

[nocternalrandomness]

Just Jane catching the sunset at East Kirby

[admiralgiggles]

North American B-25J “Mitchell” “Briefing Time”

The nose art reminds me of a pinup that hung in my poppy’s work area in my aunt's basement.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

B-29 Princess Eileen II with crew by TK622 Via Flickr: B-29 S/N 42-24462 of the 678th Bomb Squad, 444th Bomb Group, 58th Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force. Pictured here with 20 combat missions and 30 trips over the hump marked on her nose. Most likely photographed while the unit was still deployed to the China Burma India Theater. Later photos taken on Tinian show her with more Hump crossing camel marks. Judging by the numbers and letters written on top left of the photo, it seems to be a photo taken by a unit photographer. Reclaimed at the Armarillo Army Air Field on 30 June 1946.

[a-4skyhawk]

B-17F 41-24577 “Hells Angels” was assigned to 358BS/303BG [VK-D] Bangor 14-Oct-42; arrived at Molesworth 24-Oct-42; in landing accident with Irl E. Baldwin 26-Apr-43; slated to RAF 100 Squadron, but retained by 803rd BS ATD (American Training Detachment) before completing 48 missions without an abort or any crewman injured. Returned to the USA at Newark, New Jersey on 10 February 1944 for War Bond tour. 41-24577 was the first aircraft to complete 25 missions in the UK, earlier than the much more publicized “Memphis Belle” reached the same status. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Field, Stillwater, Oklahoma on 7 August 1945. “HELL’S ANGELS”.

[ghostwarriorrrr]

A B-17E named Pluto at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942-1943