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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Nose Art banned from RAF aircraft

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=460054&in_page_id=1770

....in case it offends women and Muslims in Iraq and the 'Stan. Rolling Eyes

Alberto Vargas will be spinning in his grave! Shocked

http://www.ww2planenoseart.com/Images/index.htm
http://www.acepilots.com/planes/nose_art.html
http://www.303rdbg.com/ground-nose.html
http://www.savethegirls.org/collection.html

Mind you, the RAF have tried to ban nose art before - a couple of times, in fact. It always comes back....
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Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

Nose art is a tradition that has been banned many times, but it always comes back. My feeling is that in unofficial form it is an important depiction of the aircrew's vivid imagination, to customize their "kite", normally portrayed by a budding groundcrew artist. It is a tradition that goes back to WW1 and probably started by the infamous "Red Baron" and quickly copied by the RFC and then the RAF, in it's infancy and later by most other airforces, particularly the USAF. There have, however, been many official nose art graphics, these will probably continue as they are normally squadron crests, ie tigers head for 74 Sqdn. If these nose art graphics offend, then don't look at them as they raise the morale of the aircrew, which, IMHO, is more important.

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