B-17

 

Republic P47 Thunderbolt "The Jug" and Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog".


P47

A10

 

Airforce pilots are famous to rename or "nickname" their airplanes. That where the Jug and Warthog comes from.

Plane Assigned Name Nickname
F4 Phantom Double Ugly
T-37 Tweety Bird
T-38 Talon White Rocket
F-16 Fighting Falcon Viper (either snakes or Battlestar Galactica )
F-15 Eagle Eagle They must have liked the original name
F-105 Thunderchief Thud
f-117 nighthawk Wobblin' Goblin

More here:
https://web.mit.edu/btyung/www/nickname.html

 

B-29 cockpit

 

B-25 (Nose Art)

B-25 (Nose art)

B-25 (Nose art)

B-24 (Nose art)

B-24 (Nose art)

 

Junkers (pronounced yoonkers) JU 87 Sturzkampfflugzeug "Stuka"

 

Bell P-39 Airacobra

 

Curtiss P40 Warhawk. This one is in the famous "Flying Tigers" paint scheme.

 

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra and Cord Phaeton

 

Early model P-38 NON Turbo (RP-322) 'R' for 'Restricted', due to non-contra-rotating props, P for pursuit and 322 for the Lockheed Model designation

 

GEE BEE R1

 

Concord at the gate.

 

P-59 was America's first jet.

 

P-80 (first jet fighter used operationally by the Army Air Force)

 

The P61 "Black Widow" The U.S. Army Air Force's first operational night fighter.

 

MIG 17

MIG 17

 

F-86 Sabre

 

F-89 Scorpion

 

McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom.

 

I spent 6 yrs at McDonnel Douglas, on the final assembly line, in St. Louis, building the Phantoms, in the late 60s.