Bay Art
The practice of putting personalized
decorations on fighting airplanes originated with Italian and German pilots.
This was followed by the popular tradition of painting mouths underneath
the propeller spinner, initiated by the German pilots in World War I. The
reasons for nose art are many but were often done for humor, aesthetics,
to taunt the enemy, as a good luck charm or for other superstitious reasons.
Practical reasons do also exist, as decorated aircraft were easier to personally
identify.
In more modern times, many
ground crews of the F-117A Stealth Fighter painted their own "nose art"
on the interior walls of the weapon bay doors. This led to the creation
of "Bay Art". Below is a gallery of all the TR-3B Bay arts and the number
of the aircraft.
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