This photo of a dashing Flight Lieutenant Neville Bowker inspired the nose art that has become inescapably linked with the Flying Tigers. It isn’t a smile. It is more a predator’s sneer. Razor ...

Let’s talk about that iconic aircraft nose art. The Flying Tigers began with 100 P-40 aircraft supplied by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s plant in Buffalo, New York.

The airmen spent four days applying Flying Tigers nose art to A-10C Thunderbolt II tail number A213, ensuring the plane looks just as deadly as it performs.