Racy, nasty or just plain fun?

Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:13 pm

We all know the "usual" and well publicized nose art.

Names, cities, wives, etc. have been well documented and their photos have graced many a book.

Now, I have seen -but rarely published- shots of aircraft bearing names or graphics, that sooner or later were forced to "become decent" by orders of the people with the pointy hats : )

For example:

The Polish Cannon

Who Flung Poo?

I know there are many more, but I would like to see shots of them. Racy or not, they are part of our history.

Anyone?

Saludos,

Tulio

Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:25 pm

nevermind.

Last edited by mustangdriver on Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:29 pm

mustangdriver wrote:Well, I am not a fan of MSN ever since I saw a pic of a polar bear with a caption that said should he die? As for the other idiots that posted on there, they need to shut their mouths and instead of arguing why we are honoring these men, just say"Thanks you" to them. The media is only out to get a story. Notice how right aways they have to try to make a link to slaves. What does a P-51 pilot have to do with that? Shut up and honor these men while we still have them. You can argue about that s@#$ later.

uhhhhhh????

Did you mean for that to go here?
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12213

Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:34 pm

Sorry, I have been hitting the booze a little hard today. The funny thing is that I thought I did put it in there? Is there any way for admin to move it?

Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:47 pm

I got it moved.

Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:51 pm

I think that "Naked Fanny" is particularly funny ever since I moved to the UK...because 'fanny' doesn't refer to the same piece of anatomy that Americans think!!

Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:19 pm

8th AF B-17F Miss Abortion" had her name removed but the nose art was left on. Renamed "Stuff", those with a knowledge of British slang liked the new name better. :wink:

Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:45 pm

I've heard something like that before Randy, although I still don't know what it means....Someone please, give me a clue, I am clueless on the Naked Fanny thing......

One that I really liked is in a big nose art book I have, It is
B-17

The fickle (finger picture) of ? (Titled in the book as "The fickle finger of fate")

The other one I saw, and loved, was on a P-47, SHACK RAT, with the gigantic boobay shot.......Right on the cowl...

Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:48 pm

B-24 in the NMUSAF "Strawberry Bitch" we actually have had a few complaints over the years over it's name offending some.

Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:51 pm

mustangdriver wrote:B-24 in the NMUSAF "Strawberry Bitch" we actually have had a few complaints over the years over it's name offending some.

Funny...a machine whose sole purpose is to KILL PEOPLE and DESTROY THINGS isn't offensive, but the word 'bitch' is.

Americans really have a bizarre sense of morality.

O.P. wrote:I've heard something like that before Randy, although I still don't know what it means....Someone please, give me a clue, I am clueless on the Naked Fanny thing......

It's the part of the female anatomy on the opposite side as the butt. So, American engines turn a different way than British ones....Americans drive on the opposite side of the road as Brits....and the fanny in England is on a woman's front end, and it's on her rear in the US!

Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:11 pm

the military sure slammed the lid down regarding nose art during the 1st gulf war, is this restriction still in place?? it sucks, it was good for morale then, & cripes!! anything can help morale these days!!!

Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:28 pm

Although lewd references in nose art, sometimes edging pretty close to the promotion of rape, was only mildly censored and ended up being preserved and celebrated, other off-color categories of nose art -- tending toward highly negative and racist/ethnic depictions of the enemy -- existed, but has never been rediscovered and come back into fashion. Much of it has been lost forever, scrubbed from history the way the Germans only wished they could do with Nazi symbology.

It's like the more excessive wartime animated and editorial cartoons by Disney, Warner, and Ted Geisel (aka Dr Suess) that were suppressed for decades, and a few of which are now starting to resurface in adults-only media. There was some pretty strong stuff there, stuff that was hard to be proud of even under wartime circumstances.

August

Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:36 pm

We had a disply from disney that had much of the artwork that they were doing for the war. As for the stuff that the enemy found offensive that we painted on our planes, it doesn't stand up against murdering millions of people.

Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:56 am

tom d. friedman wrote:the military sure slammed the lid down regarding nose art during the 1st gulf war, is this restriction still in place?? it sucks, it was good for morale then, & cripes!! anything can help morale these days!!!

Nose art was killed long before Desert Storm. If anything, noseart made a minor 'comeback' during ODS that was repeated during OEF and OIF after 9/11.

It's currently not allowed on fighters. When I was at Barksdale AFB recently most of the B-52s all had individual noseart.

Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:23 am

All of the KC-135's and C-130's here in the burgh have nose art.