Aircraft Nose Art/Pin Up Girls

[Mumbles]

OK...
one more time...

 

[loadtoad]

I blame letting women in the military.

That sounds about right

 

[feddoc]

For what it's worth - Sonny Barger (whoever he is) can lick my hairy balls. The Hell's Angels of VMF (later VMFA-321) used the name Hell's Angels before any of those retarded, idiotic, criminal fucknuts were even a sparkle in their grandparents eyes. 1943. Again - they can bite my balls.

Not the same as their logo....besides he loves the military, particularly the Navy. I met him about 5-6 years ago. Decent guy and went out of his way to autograph his book once he found out I was still in the Navy.

 

[Purdue]

I have always liked classic nose-art. Here's some pics I have saved from random discoveries around the internet:

(Some of these may have been posted on other posts here by other people)

 

[DanMa1156]

Was it mostly only Army Air Corps who named their aircraft, like in the above photographs? Was this ever a Navy tradition? When did that tradition go to the wayside?

 

[BarrettRC8]

Does anyone have the link to that guy's work who painted the modern pin ups? I believe one was of a lady riding "Little Boy" as it was being dropped on Hiroshima, another was one of a lady with wings and a machine gun...?

Is any of this striking a bell?

 

[Cams1215]

Thanks for all of the great ideas... Now i have a place to start. Any more ideas, pictures, names, etc. are still appreciated... seeing that a piece of sand paper and a can of black primer can be used as an eraser... only because this will be my first attempt at graphic paint design... not like water colors in 3rd grade....

 

[schwarti]

Ryan - yeah, I know what you're talking about, but I can't remember the guy's name either. There was a thread about this a few months back... I can't find it, though.

 

[Mumbles]

Gil Elvgren and Olivia are very well renowned pin up artists.

 

[Tex_Hill]

Does anyone have the link to that guy's work who painted the modern pin ups? I believe one was of a lady riding "Little Boy" as it was being dropped on Hiroshima, another was one of a lady with wings and a machine gun...?

Is any of this striking a bell?

Is this the thread you're referring to?

http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135319


Here's the website of the guy you're talking about & the picture you mentioned:
http://gangus.cgsociety.org/gallery/482403/

 

[phrogpilot73]

Not the same as their logo....besides he loves the military, particularly the Navy. I met him about 5-6 years ago. Decent guy and went out of his way to autograph his book once he found out I was still in the Navy.

That's good to hear. While my tone may have been a bit harsh, I kind of figured that as long as the logo's not the same (and based on the fact that it looks like Nose Art), the use of Hell's Angels wouldn't be a big deal. They may get their panties in a bunch, but I'm sure once they know that it has nothing to do with them, and has a historical connotation that they would probably not care.

 

[Fog]

FWIW, my father was in "McArthur's Navy". They were land-based naval aviation units that shared airfields w/ the AAC from New Guinea in '42/'43 through the Leyte Gulf landings in 1944/45. He brought home hundreds of pictures of him & buddies next to Navy & AAC aircraft. There were never any nose-art pictures on the PB4Y-2 aircraft of his unit or other Navy aircraft. There were almost always such pictures on the AAC a/c (B-24's, 25's, P38's & 51's). In his words: "if the gov't had given the AAC enough fuel, they would have crashed every plane they were ever issued"! Some things never change!

 

[insanebikerboy]

That's good to hear. While my tone may have been a bit harsh, I kind of figured that as long as the logo's not the same (and based on the fact that it looks like Nose Art), the use of Hell's Angels wouldn't be a big deal. They may get their panties in a bunch, but I'm sure once they know that it has nothing to do with them, and has a historical connotation that they would probably not care.

I saw a show on the History Channel about the Hell's Angels and Sonny Barger. The show seemed to portray that they were a bunch of hellraisers but would go down fighting for the US flag. A conundrum, but interesting I thought. If I'm not mistaken, I think the show said Sonny was in the Army in his early life.

 

[MrSaturn]

Have anyone besides the US used pin up girls as Nose/Art?

 

[FastMover]

VS-21 Decom Nose Art

Here are some great pics of the nose art applied to one of VS-21's jets prior to their decommissioning a few years ago. It's sad to think that such a good looking jet is just sitting out in the desert now...

Click here to see how the art was applied.