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Aircraft nose art makes quiet comeback, reviving Air Force tradition
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| May 15, 2016
Posted on 05/15/2016 5:11:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: DesertRhino; All
I like this one
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:11:02 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
It’s tough to top the “Varga girls”.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:12:34 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Kaslin
I liked to one on the bomber nose in the airplane graveyard in movie “The Best Years of Our Lives”... ROUND TRIP?
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:15:13 PM PDT
by
wetgundog
("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:15:26 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
A little addendum to the Fox story. The F-15 from the Oregon Air Guard with the distinctive paint job has a tail number beginning with the number “79” That means it rolled off the former McDonnell-Douglas (now Boeing) assembly line in 1979, so it’s been in operational service for 39 years.
The cool art doesn’t mitigate an important fact: that’s a very old jet which should have been retired long ago. But thanks to the procurement holiday of the 90s; the decision to halt F-22 production at 187 jets and recent budget cuts, the Oregon F-15 will likely see 40 years of service as an operational fighter—something unthinkable when it joined the inventory during the last year of the Carter Administration.
Additional thoughts on the impact of a shriking (and aging) Air Force on national security:
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2016/05/wiped-out.html
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:18:26 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Kaslin
I agree thats a good looking one. I have always enjoyed official entire aircraft themes. Black Phantom was a great one. And there were a bunch in 1976 for the Bicentennial.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:20:37 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
To: DesertRhino
I love airplane nose art. There are some great videos on YouTube about the boneyards they flew them to for dismantling, and looking at the planes, it was interesting to look at the change over time. It could be me, but it seemed as WWII went on, the nose art got more and more sexually graphic...
They probably got to the point where they simply said “No female/male sex organs except for T&A, or sex acts. Paint what you want and keep flying missions.”
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:23:37 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: DesertRhino
I’m with you on that...Fail.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:25:04 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: a fool in paradise
I enjoyed those...thanks.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:25:05 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
To: rlmorel
I wonder what the Krauts thought of the nose art on our planes? Something tell me their pilots appreciated a good nude.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:27:30 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Iron Munro
My dad was a B24 tailgunner out of Spinazola Italy. Thanks for reminding me of him. I miss him a lot.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:29:57 PM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
To: Baynative
“I shoveled sh!t in Louisiana.”
Patton (movie) reference.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:32:15 PM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: rlmorel
Late in WWII, the more graphic nose art was censored by adding bikini bottoms, etc. Probably some command general’s wife got the vapors.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:34:01 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Kaslin
To: DesertRhino
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:48:43 PM PDT
by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
To: DesertRhino
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:48:47 PM PDT
by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
To: Charles Martel
Yeah...probably stateside or over in England. Hard to imagine that in the far west Pacific.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:55:46 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:56:52 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: BenLurkin
I wonder what the Krauts thought of the nose art on our planes? Something tell me their pilots appreciated a good nude.Someone commented that if you look at German WWII nose art, it was always something dark, like skulls, etc.
He said it was a telling commentary on how the two cultures viewed life - ours celebrated it, theirs celebrated death.
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posted on
05/15/2016 7:32:53 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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