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Not to be confused with nose job, nose-jewels, or nose piercing. Virgin Atlantic nose art on 'Varga Girl', an Airbus A340-600. This particular nose art is used across Virgin Atlantic's fleet, and is officially named the Flying Lady. [ 1 ] Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage.
Developed from. North American NA-40. Developed into. North American XB-28 Dragon. The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. [2]
Fifinella, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) mascot, created by The Walt Disney Company. Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film from Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) asked permission to use the image as their official mascot, and the Disney ...
The Great Artiste nose art. The Great Artiste was a U.S. Army Air Forces Silverplate B-29 bomber (B-29-40-MO 44-27353, Victor number 89), assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group. The aircraft was named for its bombardier, Captain Kermit Beahan, in reference to his bombing talents. It flew 12 training and practice missions in ...
B-25. 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY. This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944.
B-25J-25NC 44-30823 (N1042B), (nude on bomb) Olive Drab - airworthy with the Mid America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas. Flies as God and Country. Used as a camera ship during filming. [14] Dumbo B-25J, nose section, Tennessee Air Museum, Sevierville, Tennessee, (D) All the B-25s had the tip of the vertical stabilizer painted blue.
An air crew may commission or create an artwork located on the fuselage of the aircraft, usually the nose. Nose art may portray largely unclothed or nude women. Examples of nose arts could be dated back to the First World War. But it was not until the Second that this movement truly took off. Nose arts could be found on both Allied and Axis ...
42-32076. Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, originally Shoo Shoo Baby, is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in World War II, preserved and currently in storage at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, awaiting transfer to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. A B-17G-35-BO, serial number 42-32076, and manufactured by Boeing, it was ...