The designs ranged from teeth to pin-up models to cartoon characters. The intake on the Curtiss P-40, an Allied fighter and ground-attack aircraft, lent itself to a shark mouth design. The first P ...

when the group known as the Flying Tigers painted the front of one of the top WWII fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40, to ...

Udvar-Hazy Center, a Curtiss P-40E wears a shark face but was not a Flying Tiger. The aircraft is painted ... struck Bond most was the fighter’s eyes and fearsome teeth.

Also called the Flying Tigers, the volunteers painted shark teeth around the airscoops of their P-40 Warhawk fighter planes, a tradition which continues to this day. U.S. Air Force Col.

“A lot of guys here take pride in the shark teeth on the front of the plane,” said 1st Lt. Nicholas Scarpelli, 75th Fighter Squadron pilot, in the Feb. 24 article, written by Airman 1st Class ...

These pilots flew P-40 fighter planes and became known as the Flying Tigers due in part to the famous tiger shark paint scheme along the nose. However, the nickname also stems from their official ...

Those planes are the ones rocking the ferocious shark teeth war paint, he said. "It's not just any A-10s that have the shark teeth," Lt. Col. Matthew Shelly, an experienced A-10 pilot and the ...