The nose art, inspired by the WWII Flying Tigers, requires a detailed, multi-step painting process involving washing, sanding, masking, and applying multiple colors. -The tradition of the shark ...

The images and insignias ... which trace a lineage to the Flying Tigers, use the shark grin on their A-10 Warthogs. Like the age of the aerial dogfight, nose art has become something of an ...

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.

According to the Air Force, the markings symbolize the legacy of this squadron dating back to the Flying Tigers of WWII. The Flying Tigers got the shark motif from the German Luftwaffe ...

[Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] 5. 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 ...

Now, 75 years later at age 96, Losonsky is one of three known living survivors of what’s arguably the most famous fighter plane outfit in history: the Flying Tigers. If you haven’t heard the ...

It was the most numerous U.S. Army fighter plane at the time of Pearl Harbor, and it won fame with General Claire Lee Chennault’s “Flying Tigers ... iterations of nose art, finally settled ...

Ever wonder how the American Volunteer Group got its nickname "The Flying Tigers" when the noses of ... As for the origin of the shark nose designs on the P-40s, the pilots were drinking gin ...

The nose’s symbolic fierceness was backed up by its pilots in combat. The Flying Tigers are credited with destroying as many as 497 Japanese planes at a cost of only 73 of their own. Today ...

The nose art, inspired by the WWII Flying Tigers, requires a detailed, multi-step painting process involving washing, sanding, masking, and applying multiple colors. -The tradition of the shark ...