Since its inception, aviation adopted many maritime traditions, including an increased seafarers to various kinds of superstitions. So, after the fleet ("Baba on the ship to trouble"), one of the most bad attacks, alone, solid trouble, was the presence on board a plane or even with him female representatives (which, however, did not cancel the benefits of pilots to girls Outside the airfield). Other characteristic feature The first aviators were their bright individuality, which inevitably led to attempts to give a recognizable appearance and their aircraft. So, in the first world war on board airplants, various pictures and personal emblems of pilots appeared, but in general, the Puritan attitude of the society of that time to the image of a female body for a long time did not allow to appear similar paintings on board aircraft.
Oddly, the Russian pilots became pioneers in the image of playful beauties on the fuselages. It happened after the February Revolution of 1917, when the authority of the command composition was strongly shaken, and it was possible everything or almost everything. The civil war, which began soon, only added Wolitsa to the work of the airfield "Painters", and the onboard "Newfor" and "Svonvichi" was sent to the girls in frivolous poses. Which is characteristic of this kind of painting at all did not fit in air force Other States Parties to the First World War, whose pilots were limited to less causing painting, and British airplanes were generally a ascetic appearance, and differed from each other a maximum tactical signs consisted of geometric figures.
The ending world world and then Civic War took with you and blissful external view Aviation equipment. The next arrival of on-board painting in now in the RPC Air Force took place in the period of the Great Patriotic War, and a massive nature has already acquired it in the second half of her half, after the conquest of the Soviet pilots of superiority in the air. However, under a watchful view of political workers on the "yokes" and "lavetop" Stalinist Sokolov appeared in their majority drawings of representatives of the animal world (predatory birds or all sorts of lions and tigers) or political satire. Only two pictures of Soviet military aircraft with drawings are known to the author, which can be attributed to erotic topics with a large part of the convention, and the Aerocobras obtained by Land Liza are depicted at both pictures. Here it is, the effect of the West!
In this west, in the meantime, the onboard painting blotted terry. By the beginning of World War II, an extraordinary popularity in the United States acquired a genre of the figure, called PIN-AP (PIN-UP - from "Pin", i.e., it is understood that such a picture is hanging on the wall using the buttons), the classical plot of which was The girl who fell into an awkward situation and the deprived of the clothing. Seductive beauties cling to stockings for a spiny shrub, their dresses swallow sudden gusts of the wind, they were inadvertently hit by the artist while taking a soul or dressing up.
If American pilots were not seen in the first world war, the American pilots were noticed, then with the beginning of the Second World Pean-AP, a victorious procession on the fuselages of the US Air Force. The command preferred to close on the arts of the eye, rightly believing that there is no particular harm to military discipline, but there is a certain raising of the combat spirit. In the future, this tradition has survived, and as soon as the US Air Force entered into battle, whether it was a war in Korea, Vietnam or Persian Gulf, drawn "military girlfriends" appeared on the fuselages of the aircraft. In the last couple of decades, the attitude towards fuselage arts for erotic topics has become more loyal in other Air Force.
Fighter "Newport-23" from the 22nd Kao Western Front with the image of the mermaid on board - the first famous drawing in the style of Nu on the plane (http://vikond65.livejournal.com)
Mermaid on board "NewPore-17" presents a ribbon with a red star, apparently, the owner of the aircraft - the head of aviation of the 9th Army of the Southern Front I.I. Semenov (http://vikond65.livejournal.com)
On this "Newport" unknown red pilot moved and at all the classic plot - Venus Urbinskaya Titian's brushes
(http://vikond65.livejournal.com)
Newport-17 from the 43rd intelligence aircraft industry of the Turkestan Front, Bukhara, 1920. The picture on board reproduces the picture of the French artist Jules Joseph Lefevra "Maria Magdalene in the Grote" (http://vikond65.livejournal.com)
This captured in April 1919 by Poles at the railway station Vilna "Newpher-24Bis" from the composition of the 3rd Artillery Avia Distillery decorates the antique plot - the goddess Diana is shooting from Luca. After repairing the Poles included this fighter to the composition of its Air Force (http://vikond65.livejournal.com)
On board Newor-24Bis, Krasourenlette Popova from the 44th reconnaissance detachment of the Western Front climbs the next nude beauty in despair. In October 1919, the pilot flew on his fighter to the Poles. Touching the red stars, they did not touch the "work of art" (http://vikond65.livejournal.com)
The pilots of the 3rd squadron "Hell's Angels" (Hells Angels) of the American Volunteer Group Against the Background of his "Tomahaw" P-40C, Burma, 1941 in the hands of the Squadron emblem pilots - the nude female figure of red with wings designed to depict the fiction of hell ( http://www.archives.gov)
"Aerocor" commander of the squadron of the 69th GW.IAP Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Psurekova, 1944-1945. Composition of air victories and two female portraits is extremely uncharacteristic for the Red Army Air Force (http://waralbum.ru)
The pilots of the 102nd GW.IAAP on the wing "Aerocobra", the cabin of which is decorated with a picture in the style of Pin-up. Judging by the pictures of other regiments, the process of "decoration" of fighters was fast and effective - the American magazine who fell into the USSR and the American magazine was frantically disassembled on the pages and was disclosed on Cabin's doors (the author's collection)
"Lady in the Dark" - Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter, who received his name in honor of the popular musical (http://www.indianamilitary.org)
First lieutenant Richard O. Lerert with his mechanic on the wing of "Lighting" P-38J "California Cutie". 55th Fighter Squadron US Air Force, England, June 1944 (http://www.americanaearmuseum.com)
American pilots admire the masterpiece of fine art on board the Douglas bombers A-20 "Heavok" from the composition of the 410th bombarding squadron of the 97th bombarding group. United Kingdom, summer 1944 ()
The American sea pilots of the Second World War was indiscriminated by the onboard painting in general and Pin-ap. in particular an order of magnitude less often of their land fellow, but there is no rules without exception. In the photo, the F6F-5N F6F-5N fleet line from the Night Fighter Squadron VMF (n) -451, each of which carries its drawing on the nose
(http://www.zone-five.net)
P-61 night fighter with his own name "Moon Happy". For someone, but for Japanese bombers who operated at night, a meeting with "black widows" did not succeed any happiness!
(http://www.modelersalliance.com)
Transport "Douglas" C-53 "D-Day Doll" carries a drawing dedicated to landing allies in Normandy June 6, 1944
(http://www.warbirdinformationExchange.org)
Lieutenant Guy Bordendon is the only US among the sea pilots who participated in the Korean War, who achieved the title of Asa, against the background of his "Corsair" F4U-5N "Annie-Mo". All of his victories were announced at night, in battles with light 2 and Yak-18, used as bombers (
Aircraft Nose Art - the art of drawings on the fuselage of the aircraft - got the greatest distribution in American aviation during the Second World War.
The plots were different: patriotic topics, comic book characters and Disney cartoons, but above all, of course, girls.
NOSE ART is not something fundamentally new - he leads his roots from the old custom of the military to decorate himself: the knights put on rich armor, the sailors were installed on the ships of Rostra, the Indians painted the face ...
Aviation Nose Art originated with military aviation. Here is the airplane of the Italian ASA of the First World War Francesco Barakka: 
(It is rumored that this horse later moved to the emblem of cars "Ferrari")
The era of the heyday Nose Art has become the Second World War.
Almost everyone american airplanes Have their own names. There is no accurate statistics, but, apparently, about half of the aircraft wore Nose Art drawings. 
Zodiac signs. Libra 
and cancer 
Nose Art appared the command of the Air Force as a morale and some psychological support for the crew.
There were restrictions. Figures, as a rule, were worn only by combat aircraft, and in Nose Art's naval aviation were prohibited at all. 
American psychologists engaged in the study of the Aircraft Nose Art phenomenon, believe that this way the aircraft thought, reminded the pilot about the house and peaceful life, served as a kind of psychological protection from the war. Many aircraft wore names of wives, girlfriends, mothers.
Captain Ervin S. Ethell and his wife Jenny 
"Temporarily acting widow" 
Capral Ruby Newell - a beautiful division girl - at his portrait: 
Crews painted airplanes exclusively at their own expense. They were engaged in both lovers and pros who served in parts - former artists, caricaturists. 
"The wife of our pilot somehow told us the legend about the aist, who lived on the island in the Pacific Ocean and took place a thousand surrounding islands daily to wish them a good. We immediately liked the story, and in two quarters of the Irish whiskey, one soldier drew us to this stork on board. " 
(I personally would not give you whiskey drops for this drawing)
Girls in the style of PIN-UP met much more often than real wives and girlfriends.
Often, these works were copies of magazine drawings. 
(This crew made 90 combat runs that there are a lot of American standards)
As noted, for some reason, the Pacific Theater of Military Action, for some reason, was much easier than in Europe. 
Night task 
The most common drawing of Aircraft Nose Art - shark mouth - invented during the First World War. 
Maps, bones, four clover sheet - good luck symbols. 
I wonder what these camels mean ... 
"Difficult child": 
(This plane shot in the film "Amendment 22")
After the Vietnamese war, Nose Art practically disappears and gradually refunds only in the 1980s. They counted that it restores the continuity of glorious combat traditions.
Princess ley. 
The cat raises the missile on MiG-29: 
In 2007, the British Ministry of Defense banned the use of images of girls, as potentially offensive to female personnel.
Now the procedure is complicated: first the crew presents a sketch of Nose Art to his commander, and he must agree on the drawing with the command of the Aviacryla. 
UPD 9.12.12 It turns out that camels on the fuselage mean that the main route ran through Himalayas. The number of camels is the number of departures that turned to the other side of the camel - the crew had to turn back due to engine malfunction (
The tradition of applying pictures on combat vehicles leads its beginning since the first world war, the Germans were the Germans, but the Americans supported this tradition and developed deeply. Such a "skirmish" painting is called Nose Art
The Two World War I was the heyday of the Nose Art of Flaw, "almost all American airplanes had their own names, and, apparently, about half of the aircraft wore drawings on the nose. The plots were the most different, but most often it was the characters of cartoons or girls drawn in the style of Pin-Up. Nose Art appared the command of the Air Force as a morale and some psychological support for the crew. American psychologists engaged in the study of the Aircraft Nose Art phenomenon, believe that this way the aircraft thought, reminded the pilot about the house and peaceful life, served as a kind of psychological protection from the war. Nowadays, pilots flying on historical aircraft are also applied to their Nose Art Art, or in classic form, or create original images.
Aviation Nose Art originated with military aviation. Here is an airplane of the Italian ASA of the First World War Francesco Barakka
The era of the heyday Nose Art has become the Second World War.
Almost all American aircraft had their own names. There is no accurate statistics, but, apparently, about half of the aircraft wore Nose Art drawings.
Most convenient locally For the placement of Nose Art, the nasal parts of bombers are natural. There are many places, there is where to turn around. Boeing B-17G N9323Z
Boeing B-17G N900RW.
Boeing B-17G N3193G and again girls.
The liberator has a picture of the picture even more! Consolidated B-24A (LB-30) Liberator N24927
True later, this plane was repainted in a protective color and such a graph appeared on it.
And this is a "strawberry bitch" from the Museum of the Air Force in Diton. Consolidated B-24D Liberator 42-72843.
"Betty's Dream" (?) B-25J N5672V
Sad Angela, TB-25N N345BG.
Princess Apache, B-25J N1943J.
Nose Art appared the command of the Air Force as a morale and some psychological support for the crew.
There were restrictions. Figures, as a rule, were worn only by combat aircraft, and in Nose Art's naval aviation were prohibited at all.
Zodiac signs. Libra
Eagle with a bomb. B-25C N3774.
Capral Ruby Newell - a beautiful division girl - at his portrait:
Crews painted airplanes exclusively at their own expense. They were engaged in both lovers and pros who served in parts - former artists, caricaturists.
Russian Get Ya! B-25J N747AF.
Girls in the style of PIN-UP met much more often than real wives and girlfriends. Often, these works were copies of magazine drawings.
As noted, for some reason, the Pacific Theater of Military Action, for some reason, was much easier than in Europe.
Night task
DOUGLAS B-26 N7705C
The most common drawing of Aircraft Nose Art - shark mouth - invented during the First World War.
A huge nose air intake on an airplane P-40 has given the opportunity to draw such impressive sharks to the mouth. Curtiss P-40N Warhawk NL40PN.
The nose on the mustangs was magnificent, and Nose Art, they often walked under the cab. Although the sharks of the mouth also met. P-51D Mustang NL68JR.
Kid with Tommigan. P-51D Mustang NL151HR.
Latest creativity, a large boss with a machine gun on the racing GRUMMAN F7F-3 Tigercat NX805MB.
On Delderebolt, it was convenient to draw Nose Art on massive engine hoods. Pink Dambo on P-47D 45-49167, Museum of Air Force.
Neanderthal, Republic P-47D Thunderbolt NX47DA.
The Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton is kept a large collection of Nose Art graphics in the form of sheets of fuselage wheels, taken from utilized bombers B-52 different modifications. As a reminder of the long-lasting, but rapid times.
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon N7670C.
Transport aircraft. Despite the rather large size, the nose of the famous DC-3 is relatively small and draw on it the grand Nose Art is pretty difficult. DC-3 N47HL.
Maps, bones, four clover sheet - good luck symbols.
"Delivery of generals." DC-3 N7772 in the EAA Museum.
Transport workers are smaller, the C-45 also did not lag behind Nose Art from their larger counterparts. BEECH C-45G N7694C.
BEECH C-45H N167ZA.
Redhead. Beech C-45H N9550Z.
"Difficult child"
After the Vietnamese war, Nose Art practically disappears and gradually refunds only in the 1980s. They counted that it restores the continuity of glorious combat traditions.
Modern original creativity. Dee Howard 500 N500HP.
Cat rakes the missile on MiG-29
In 2007, the British Ministry of Defense banned the use of images of girls, as potentially offensive to female personnel. Now the procedure is complicated: first the crew presents a sketch of Nose Art to his commander, and he must agree on the drawing with the command of the Aviacryla.
Art draw on fuselages of aircraft - Nose Art - appeared during the First World War.
California art historian and Antiquarian Bruce Herman argues that the drawings on aircraft are a continuation of the European Knight's traditions of Heraldry.
"The pilots of the First World War's Times most often belonged to the ancient noble birth and may have seriously perceived themselves as new knights. They even had their own special knightly" credit code. "In the days of the Middle Ages, the knights painted their shields - they painted family Coat of arms. It is here that it is worth looking for the origins of the tradition of military aircraft, "says Herman.
It is worth noting that the painting of the aircraft of the First World War is distinguished by high professionalism and presents real artistic value.
"Most of the pilots of the beginning of the century before the war received professional art education," explains Herman.
During World War I, the pilots did not directly paint the aircraft themselves. The coat of arms, pictures and mottos drawn on canvas, which was then fastened on the wing or tail of the combat vehicle. At auctions, the price for such works of art can reach a few hundred thousand dollars.
The Second World War
With the beginning of World War II, the art of the painting of combat aircraft has undergone fundamental changes. Classic plots and classic art forever disappeared from fighters and bombers. His place was taken by popular cartoon characters.
Fashion on the "combat coloring" of aircraft rapidly conquered the hearts of pilots of the Second World War.
"The Americans turned out to be the most impest, but the most active artists," says Herman.
Few people know that the twin-bar of cartoon - Walt Disney was also the "godfather" Nose Art. After the beginning of the war, the management of the US Air Force hired artists from Disney Studio exclusively in order to be painted combat aircraft.
During the war, Disney Studio has created free sketches of drawings for coloring aircraft, tanks and even stripes on the form. Not only for the American military, sketches asked military units from Great Britain, Poland, China, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and France. At the time of the war, Disney allocated five artists for the needs of the army. For the Second World Disney Studio, 1,200 drawings for the military were drawn. The most popular hero was Donald Duck. The only hero of cartoons, which on military equipment did not paint never bembi.
Disney himself, who passed the first soldier World WarIn combat conditions, entertained what he painted his comrades in the helmets. However, Disney's creativity admirers lived not only in the United States.
"Disney was furious when he found out that a few dozen LuftWaffe fighters were drawn on the fuselage of Miki Mius," says Herman.
In addition to the animation, the main source of inspiration for military artists was Esquire magazine. Most often on the fuselages of bombers and fighters, pictures of the artist Esquire Alberto Vargas were reproduced.
Nose Art 1945-2003
After the end of World War II, NOSE ART has received wide fame. Now about pictures that adorn combat aircraft, they know not only in the sky, but also on Earth.
In the West, extensive catalogs of characters and drawings made on aircraft during various military conflicts are published.
The plot of the picture most often depends on the nature of the conflict.
It is worth noting that an unsolved aircraft, for example, in the US Air Force, is practically no. Pictures There are even on top-secret bombers B-2 and F-117. But in order to avoid misunderstandings, their pilots are drawn solely on the inside of the bubblyuk doors or other, invisible to the surfaces.
Officially, the only unit of the Air Force, which is allowed to paint the aircraft is the 23rd fighting group "Flying Tigers".
After the beginning of the first global pilots went into all serious. Who painted on the Iron Birds aces, who skulls, and one Italian is a horse (the very thing that became the emblem of Ferrari). And without women, of course, it did not do.
Moralism horses such decorations of airplanes, of course, irritated, but had to endure - it's hard to preach the Moral 20-year-old professional killer, who will be buried tomorrow in the airplane to Fullba.
When the war ran out, the nuts twisted. The army is an order, here everything should be monotonous, trimmed, painted and sprinkled with sand. However, it was worth starting to start the next worldwill, as the story was repeated.
The largest connoisseurs of aircraft art were American pilots. There is a logical explanation. The British painted their bombers in camouflage colors and flew at night when they could see them. True, the goal to see as it should also not particularly obtained, but with the bombing of the cities of particular accuracy is not required. The Americans, terribly proudered by their sight "Norden", flew in the afternoon, and in the sunny sky such a bandor, like the B-17, to disguise under the tucho would not even take the Winnie Pooh. When the command was trusted that the pilots massively paint on airplanes some abnormal disgrace, it was too late. Forbidden only unclean strength and gambling - that is, the devils and cards asked to redraw.
Of course, each crew wanted to be on their aircraft there was not a sower in the style of Ostare Bender, but a real work of art. It is best that it turned out those who were friends with a brush and paint still on a citizen.
For example, in the Pacific, in the 20th cartographic squadron, El Mercling served in the rank of corporal, who worked illustrator and toy designer before the war. Soon on the surrounding bombers began to appear not provided by the charter drawings. The first became Bomber Lieutenant John Vuten. When you flight from USA to Australia, the plane so twisted in the turbulence that the battle car had to be trampled before the front. On this occasion, the crew threw off and asked Mercling to draw them something like. Al and painted - Patched Up Piece, in the sense of "Patch on a Pack". I liked the picture, and the people lined up to Mercling. By the end of the war, he painted at least twelve B-24 and a pair of cars in bed.
On the other side of the planet lucky fighters from the 334th squadron. Their mechanic, Don Allen, had time to finish art school in Cleveland. Draw on fighters was, of course, more difficult than on bombers, but Allen did it. By the way, he did not interfere with art with pornography. Therefore, when the pilots asked: "Don, but I draw me such nude so that the Fritz have eyes on the forehead!" - Allen answered: "Spock! Let's make beautiful and did not go! " And so painted almost forty aircraft. After the war, became a steep commercial artist, the head of the studio. Somehow, the mood perceived part of its military drawings and presented the Aviation Museum in Bridge, Delaware. You will be in those places - do not miss.
Don Allen paints Miss Dallas
We started on the basis of the 385th bombarding group of Ann Hayward started from the drawings on the club's wall for pilots, and then it took the jackets of pilots and for the airplanes themselves. Apparently, the guys liked both the result and the process itself. In fact, the life of the bomber is boring and monotony, that no day is the same thing: "Messers", anti-aircraft gunners, rags on an honest word and one wing. And then among the sad days beautiful girl You paint the plane. The group's pilots even wrote a collective letter with a request to release her from another work and allocated Ann Special Jeep.
Of course, talented artists who can come up with an original drawing, were in a shortage in war. In this case, ready-made plots were taken. The top was Alberto Vargas from Esquinsa magazine. Speaking "PIN-AP", usually it is to remember him. The owners of the magazine then showed advantageous patriotism - sent to military personnel for free already nine million copies. Just imagine: Poor ji-ah sit in some hole in the middle Pacific OceanWhere even sharks only swim on holidays, and here in the next parcel - Baz, magazine with pick-up beauty. The martial spirit immediately hardens and rises to an inaccessible height.
Well, whom did not have enough magazines, copied from the posters of famous actresses, dancers and just cute girls. It was sometimes possible even remotely not like the original, but you liked the guys.
