With flicks of a brush, Fernando Cortez breathed life into iconic art he created 33 years ago. Over the past week, he's restored the luster to a blond beauty, adorning the nose of a B-25 Mitchell ...

Air Force fighters and bombers are soaring into the wild blue yonder with new paint jobs, quietly reviving an old tradition. The decorative painting and designs on the noses and wings of Air Force ...

You won’t have to go far in the Museum of Aviation to find one of the most recognized pieces of plane -- nose art -- in military history. Of course, I refer to the sharks mouth on our P-40 in the ...

When it comes to home-grown decoration of military aircraft, Matthew Burchette knows it all — from topless cherry-picking pin-ups of the ’40s to the consumer-culture imagery of the present. And the ...

Harrison Township – The 127th Air Wing at Selfridge Air Force Base dipped into the past Tuesday as part of a future celebration of the Macomb County facility’s role in U.S. military aviation and its ...

One cool traditional hot rod detail that looks great if it's done right is some well-placed World War II aircraft nose art. Hot rod roadsters built in the style of the late '40s and early '50s are ...

Team Dover's maintenance groups hosted an airplane nose art unveiling ceremony March 22 at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. The nose artwork, titled "Keep 'em Flying" by renowned artist Greg ...

This video highlights five extraordinary WWII aircraft and the personal stories behind their iconic nose art. From the P-47 ...

Do you know that various things are drawn on fighter and bomber aircraft? Some people have seen things like eyes and mouth like sharks in movies etc. Or since there are few women in the battlefield, ...

In this second episode of the series, we explore even more incredible WWII aircraft nose art and the personal stories behind them. Each painted aircraft carries emotion, personality, and memory from a ...

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