WWII Plane Art

Most of those pilots seemed to have one thing on their minds. 

It’s not just pilots, Hud.

Posted by  on  04/23  at  12:57 PM

While I can understand the military’s need to project a positive image and that they don’t want “Our Boys” to be seen as frat kids worldwide because of baudy aircraft paintjobs, it’s amazing how dull the paint jobs on most military planes are nowadays.

I’ve got picture books full of old F-14 squadrons (all long gone with the F-14’s retirement and switch-over to the F-18 Super Hornet) with much brighter markings than what they do today in ANY service’s aircraft squadrons.  The old VF-1 Wolf Pack squadron had wonderful red wolf insignias and VF-84 Jolly Rogers of course had the skull and crossbones markings outlined with a bit of yellow.  (VF-84 Squadron markings, btw, were the basis for the Skull One VF-1S Valkyrie flown by Roy Fokker and Hikaru Ichijo in the classic “Superdimension Fortress Macross” anime.)

Heck, after Tailhook blew over in the early 1990s, they had to take the Playboy Bunny off the black F-14 Tomcat they used for testing at Paxtuxent River (the Navy’s equivalent of Edwards Air Force Base).

Posted by  on  04/24  at  07:48 PM
Page 1 of 1 pages

<< Back to main