nose_art

📅 Updated:2020-08-02

🕒 Created:2015-01-29

🆔 ID:6863

Description

A decoration on an aircraft's fuselage. This tag applies whether the image is a photograph or drawing of such.

Nose art is most common on military aircraft. It is a type of folk art. The most well-known are attractive women painted on the nose of American heavy bombers in the Second World War and the shark's maw of various different aircraft, most iconically the Flying Tigers’ P-40 Warhawks.