Markup View

Author: TairaMai

Sep 14th 2011 at 10:09:59 AM

One reason nose art went out of style in RealLife because most leadership became sensitive to bad PR from having naked (or nearly naked) women painted on the taxpayer's aircraft.  The other was that aircraft (in NATO) countries during the cold war, began to experiment with advanced cammo, Canadian aircraft had false canopies painted on the bottom of the nose.  The bright colors in nose art threw off the subdued cammo.

So aircraft moved the pictured to the wheel wells.  The aircrew "owns" the aircraft anyway, they do all the maintenance and arming.  For special occasions (air shows, special events) Nose art (censored for the MoralGuardians) andeven whole throwback paint schemes will be put on air craft.  The US Navy put WWII era paint jobs on one example of each type they are flying.  These aircraft fly around the country in a celebration of USN aviation, are 3D recruiting ads and are made of awesome.

Reality is unrealistic in that midnight blue is the best night cammo and the F-117 was once painted in a nice pastel pastel paint scheme for day missions.  While it was super-effective, its made tie-dyeish  look the Air Force want to choose the now famous all black paint job.