Top 10 Aircraft Nose Art

thought of this as opposed to top 10 tv aircraft.

  1. Memphis Bell

  2. Sentimental Journey

  3. Dragon and his tail (or Witchcraft, or All-American, whichever you prefer)

  4. Enola Gay

  5. Bock’s Car

anybody got anymore?

Gotta add Bong’s “Marge”…

A Bit O’ Lace

Flak Bait

Glamorous Glennis

Scat (Robin Olds)

Saw it in one of those ‘one off’ mags about WWII a/c…picture of a ‘squadron hack’ Liberator…nose art was a guy bandaged like a mummy (with bullet holes!) wheeling his wheelchair…fast. The words were:

"We’ll Be Back!!! "

You can take that a couple ways.

(I say the a/c was a squadron hack because that was what the caption said…I have no way of knowing for sure)

Nam

I have a couple of books of Kodachrome color photographs of WWII aviation with one P-51 Mustang with nose art (actually verbiage) as follows: My Aching *ss. There’s something about that nose art that cracks me up.

Miss Behavin’
Pist’l Packin Mama
Executive Sweet
Passion Wagon
The top one to me is the Flying Tigers

Betty Lou’s Buggy

Here is a website:

http://www.acepilots.com/planes/nose_art.html

PaPa-John

How about:

Air-A-Cutie

Big Beautiful Doll

Shangri-La

well i was looking more for specific aircraft rather than squadrons but i’ll deffinately make an exception here

Sweet website.

Roy

How about “Old Crow” and “Lil’ Thumper” (my Pop’s B-25D he flew in New Guinea)[:D]

Zip

My vote for one goes to the B-17G “Aluminum Overcast” - what a gal! And don’t forget “Hustlin’ Hussy” from the Revellogram P-61 kit (don’t know if this one is real or not!)

Brian [C):-)]

P-47M Lanowski with 56th FG

Halifax . Vicky

B17 Chow-hound.

Hey, I’ve done BBD:

…how about: Eight Ball and Hail Columbia from the first Ploesti Missions? And then there was Ruptured Duck on the Tokyo Raid…

I appreciate that this is slightly OT, but you cant not admire some of the formation ships used in WW2, “Little Gramper” in particular coming to mind;

I cant find any coulour pics to show here, I first spotted this liberator in a coloured illustration in “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft”, here is an artists impression of it;

Some good ones not to be missed:

Miss Pussy Galore

Flak Alley

Strawberry Bitch

Embraceable You

Thunder Bird

Morphine Sue

Chautaugua

Uncle Ho’s Nightmare

and many, many others…

Andrew

What the…[banghead]

I did not type Strawberry “female dog”, I typed Strawberry b-i-t -c-h. Has the world gone so PC that I can’t make a post about a historically significant air craft without the name being destroyed by some automated censor machine? [V] Not to mention that the kit is on the shelf of every LHS in the country in plain view of every 5yo that walks by and no one bats an eye. No change to Miss Pussy Galore I noticed, go figure. [D)] Let’s all get over it.

Andrew

I’ve always been sort of partial to the markings on ‘Tarheel Hal’. Neat looking jug.

A B-26 named “Missouri Mule”. The bombadier was a Sunday school teacher in St. Louis about 40+ years ago. Brought in some great picts he took from the nose.