Two Saab Drakens flying nose to tail over Austria in 2005. Fighting Falcons flying over the South China Sea in 2015 A Boeing F-15J from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force sports impressive art ...

Without any surviving photos of its original nose art, the team undertook extensive research to create a design that honored both its combat history and the style of its wartime squadron.

This photo of a dashing Flight Lieutenant Neville Bowker inspired the nose art that has become inescapably linked with the Flying Tigers. It isn’t a smile. It is more a predator’s sneer.