Photos of aircraft of World War II. Frame painting of the American Air Force

The site already has a lesson. In this lesson, you can gradually perform the drawing of the military aircraft of the World War II. Draw this military aircraft will be quite simple, take the Watman Sheet and a simple pencil and make sure that you. Such a lesson will even even for children, try.

1. How to draw the main contours of the aircraft

First of all, spend a horizontal barely noticeable line, it will help you more accurately draw the main contours of the fighter. By the way, in those days this (English) aircraft had beautiful name Supermarine Spitfire was considered one of the best. And besides, since 1942, Soviet pilots flew on it. In total, the Soviet side accepted 143 such machines during the war. Apply the line of the wings, the tail part and draw oval.

2. The contours of the aircraft hull

Start this pattern of the pattern from the triangle for the tail part, add another one to oval and run two binding lines. Now the drawing has become like a military aircraft.

3. We drow on the drawing on previous contours

Perhaps this pattern of the pattern is the most complex, since you need to draw the final outline of the nose, cabin and the tail of the aircraft. Do not hurry, carefully look at my drawing and make the same additions. You need to "lengthen" and "chop" the oval of the bow, change the shape of the cabin, rounded the sharp edges of the triangle and start painting the wing.

4. How to draw wings

After you delete now too much initial contours, you can proceed to draw wings and fastening the screw. This is not a jet plane, I just did not draw the blade of the screw, because during the rotation it is not visible. But for greater clarity, you can draw them. The blades at the screw two, and not four, like the helicopter. Start drawing wings. The left wing in the picture should be slightly longer than the right.

5. Latest touches drawing

You can see, stepdly and quite just you could already draw the real military aircraft. It remains only to add a few details, carefully and gently draw the cabin and you can start the last step.

6. Tone painting of the military aircraft with a pencil

This lesson is made by a simple pencil completely, but you can use color pencils in the last step. Just rush to split the paints because you can spoil the whole drawing. But if you have experience, paint the paints. For greater realistic, draw the clouds, the rays of the sun and far below the earth's surface. Do not forget that this military aircraft flew at an altitude of up to 5 km.
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The tradition of applying pictures on combat vehicles leads its beginning since the first world war, the Germans were the Germans, but the Americans supported this tradition and developed deeply. Such a "skirmish" painting is called Nose Art

The era of the heyday of the Nose Art has become the Second World War - almost all american airplanes They had their own names, and, apparently, about half of the aircraft wore drawings on the nose. The plots were the most different, but most often it was the characters of cartoons or girls drawn in the style of Pin-Up. Nose Art appared the command of the Air Force as a morale and some psychological support for the crew. American psychologists engaged in the study of the Aircraft Nose Art phenomenon, believe that this way the aircraft thought, reminded the pilot about the house and peaceful life, served as a kind of psychological protection from the war. Nowadays, pilots flying on historical aircraft are also applied to their Nose Art Art, or in classic form, or create original images.

Aviation Nose Art arose together with military aviation. Here is an airplane of the Italian ASA of the First World War Francesco Barakka

The era of the heyday Nose Art has become the Second World War.
Almost all American aircraft had their own names. There is no accurate statistics, but, apparently, about half of the aircraft wore Nose Art drawings.

Most convenient locally For the placement of Nose Art, the nasal parts of bombers are natural. There are many places, there is where to turn around. Boeing B-17G N9323Z

Boeing B-17G N900RW.

Boeing B-17G N3193G and again girls.

The liberator has a picture of the picture even more! Consolidated B-24A (LB-30) Liberator N24927

True later, this plane was repainted in a protective color and such a graph appeared on it.

And this is a "strawberry bitch" from the Museum of the Air Force in Diton. Consolidated B-24D Liberator 42-72843.

"Betty's Dream" (?) B-25J N5672V

Sad Angela, TB-25N N345BG.

Princess Apache, B-25J N1943J.

Nose Art appared the command of the Air Force as a morale and some psychological support for the crew.
There were restrictions. Figures, as a rule, were worn only by combat aircraft, and in Nose Art's naval aviation were prohibited at all.

Zodiac signs. Libra

Eagle with a bomb. B-25C N3774.

Ruby Newell Capral - beautiful girl Divisions - at your portrait:

Crews painted airplanes exclusively at their own expense. They were engaged in both lovers and pros who served in parts - former artists, caricaturists.

Russian Get Ya! B-25J N747AF.

Girls in the style of PIN-UP met much more often than real wives and girlfriends. Often, these works were copies of magazine drawings.

As noted, for some reason, the Pacific Theater of Military Action, for some reason, was much easier than in Europe.

Night task

DOUGLAS B-26 N7705C

The most common drawing of Aircraft Nose Art - shark mouth - invented during the First World War.

A huge nose air intake on an airplane P-40 has given the opportunity to draw such impressive sharks to the mouth. Curtiss P-40N Warhawk NL40PN.

The nose on the mustangs was magnificent, and Nose Art, they often walked under the cab. Although the sharks of the mouth also met. P-51D Mustang NL68JR.

Kid with Tommigan. P-51D Mustang NL151HR.

Latest creativity, a large boss with a machine gun on the racing GRUMMAN F7F-3 Tigercat NX805MB.

On Delderebolt, it was convenient to draw Nose Art on massive engine hoods. Pink Dambo on P-47D 45-49167, Museum of Air Force.

Neanderthal, Republic P-47D Thunderbolt NX47DA.

The Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton is kept a large collection of Nose Art graphics in the form of sheets of fuselage wheels, taken from utilized bombers B-52 different modifications. As a reminder of the long-lasting, but rapid times.

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon N7670C.

Transport aircraft. Despite the rather large size, the nose of the famous DC-3 is relatively small and draw on it the grand Nose Art is pretty difficult. DC-3 N47HL.

Maps, bones, four clover sheet - good luck symbols.

"Delivery of generals." DC-3 N7772 in the EAA Museum.

Transport workers are smaller, the C-45 also did not lag behind Nose Art from their larger counterparts. BEECH C-45G N7694C.

BEECH C-45H N167ZA.

Redhead. Beech C-45H N9550Z.

"Difficult child"

After the Vietnamese war, Nose Art practically disappears and gradually refunds only in the 1980s. They counted that it restores the continuity of glorious combat traditions.

Modern original creativity. Dee Howard 500 N500HP.

Cat rakes the missile on MiG-29

In 2007, the British Ministry of Defense banned the use of images of girls, as potentially offensive to female personnel. Now the procedure is complicated: first the crew presents a sketch of Nose Art to his commander, and he must agree on the drawing with the command of the Aviacryla.

Once on the site, we held the "Air Parade" contest dedicated to the anniversary, where the readers were asked to guess the names of some of the most famous aircraft of the Second World War according to their silhouettes. The competition was completed, and now we publish photos of these combat vehicles. We propose to remember what the winners and defeated in the sky are fought.

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Germany

Messerschmitt BF.109

In fact, a whole family of German combat vehicles, the total number of which (33,984 pieces) makes the 109th one of the most massive aircraft of the Second World War. Used as a fighter, fighter-bomber, fighter-interceptor, scout aircraft. It was as a fighter "Messer" he deserved sad glory from Soviet pilots - at the initial stage of war, Soviet fighters, such as I-16 and Lagg, were clearly inferior in technical terms BF.109 and carried heavy losses. Only the appearance of more advanced aircraft, such as Yak-9, allowed our pilots to fight with "messes" almost equal. The most mass modification of the machine was BF.109G ("Gustav").

Messerschmitt BF.109

Messerschmitt Me.262.

The plane was not remembered not to his special role in the Second World War, but by what was the firstborn of reactive aviation on the battlefield. ME.262 began to design before the war, but the real interest in the project was awakened by Hitler only in 1943, when the Luftwaffe had already lost its battle power. ME.262 possessed the speed indicators unique for its time (about 850 km / h), height and railing and therefore had serious advantages over any fighter of that time. In reality, there were 100 lost ME.262 for 150 allied aircraft. The low efficiency of combat use was explained by the "dampness" of the design, small experience in the use of reactive aviation and insufficient preparation of pilots.

Messerschmitt Me.262.

Heinkel-111.

Heinkel-111.

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

JU 87 piking bomber produced in several modifications has become a kind of pretext of modern high-precision weapons, since metal bombs are not with big height, and with steep dive, which allowed the ammunition more accurately. It was very effective in the fight against tanks. Due to the specifics of the use in high overload conditions, the machine was equipped with automatic air brakes to exit the peak in case of loss by the pilot of consciousness. To enhance the psychological effect of the pilot during the attack included the "Jericho tube" - a device that has made a terrible howl. One of the most famous pilots-asians flying on the "piece," was Hans-Ulrich Rudel, left rather boastful memories of war on the Eastern Front.

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

Focke-Wulf FW 189 Uhu

The tactical reconnaissance aircraft FW 189 UHU is interesting primarily by its unusual two-bondage design, for which Soviet soldiers nicknamed it with "Rama". And it was on the Eastern Front that this intelligence officer turned out to be the most useful Nazis. Our fighters knew well that bombers would fly for the "frame" and strike in proven purposes. But it was not so shot down this sluggage plane because of his high maneuverability and excellent survivability. When approaching the Soviet fighters, he could, for example, begin to describe the circles of a small radius, into which the speed cars simply could not fit.

Focke-Wulf FW 189 Uhu

Probably the most recognizable Luftwaffe bomber was developed in the early 1930s under the guise of civil transport aircraft (Create the German Air Force forbidden the Versailles Agreement). At the beginning of the Second World War Heinkel-111 was the most massive Luftwaffe bombard. He became one of the main characters of the battle for England - she was the result of the Hitler's attempt to break the will to the resistance of the British by massive bombing raids on the city of Misty Albion (1940). Already then it became clear that this average bomber is morally outdated, he lacks speed, maneuverability and security. Nevertheless, the plane continued to use and produce up to 1944.

Allies

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

The American "Flying Fortress" during the war constantly increased its security. In addition to magnificent survivability (in the form of, for example, the ability to return to the database with one whole engine of four) in a modification of the B-17G heavy bomber received thirteen 12.7 mm machine guns. A tactic was developed, within which the "flying fortresses" walked over the enemy territory in a checker, protecting each other cross-fire. The aircraft equipped high-tech at that time a bombing sight of Norden, built on the basis of an analog calculator. If the British bombed the third Reich mainly in the dark, then the "flying fortresses" were not afraid to appear over Germany in the bright time of the day.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Avro 683 Lancaster

One of the main participants in the raid bombing aviation allies to Germany, the British heavy bomber of the Second World War. Avro 683 Lancaster has accounted for the entire bombing cargo, thrown by the British on the Third Reich. Loading capacity allowed a four-dimensional aircraft to beboard "blockbusters" - super heavy concrete bombs Tallboy and Grand Slam. Low protected estimated the use of "Lancaster" as night bombers, but the night bombing was distinguished by low accuracy. In the afternoon, these aircraft carried tangible losses. Lancaster actively participated in the most destructive bombing plates of the Second World War - to Hamburg (1943) and Dresden (1945).

Avro 683 Lancaster

North American P-51 Mustang

One of the most significant fighters of the Second World War, which played an exceptional role in events on the Western Front. No matter how protecting themselves heavy bombers allies, which took place in the raids to Germany, these large, low-departed and relatively low-speed aircraft carried heavy losses from German fighter aircraft. North American commissioned by the British government urgently created a fighter who could not only fight with "messes" and "fockers", but also to have a sufficient radius of action (at the expense of suspended tanks) to accompany the "Bomberov" raids to the continent. When in 1944, "Mustangi" began to be used in this capacity, it became clear that the air war in the West by the Germans finally lost.

North American P-51 Mustang

Supermarine Spitfire.

The main and most massive fighter of the British Air Force Air Force, one of the best fighters of the Second World War. Its high-altitude and high-speed characteristics made it an equal opponent to the German Messerschmitt BF.109, and in the full-time fighting of these two cars, the skill of pilots played a major role. "Spitfairy" have greatly proven themselves, covering the evacuation of the British from Dunkirk after the success of Hitler's Blitzkrieg, and then during the Battle of Britain (July-October 1940), when English fighters had to fight like German bombers not-111, DO-17, JU 87, and with fighters BF. 109 and BF.110.

Supermarine Spitfire.

Japan

Mitsubishi A6m Raisen.

At the beginning of the Second World Japanese deck fighter A6M Raisen was the best in the world in his class, even though the Japanese word "Ray-Sen" was present in his title, that is, "fighter-zero". Thanks to the suspended tanks, the fighter had a high range of flight (3105 km), which made it indispensable for participation in the raids on the Ocean TVD. Among the aircraft participating in the assault on Pearl Harbor were 420 A6M. The Americans have learned lessons from communicating with the Jürch, pushing Japanese, and by 1943 their fighter aviation surpassed its once dangerous opponent.

Mitsubishi A6m Raisen.

The most massive pyric bombarder of the USSR began to be produced even before the war, in 1940, and remained to the victory. The lowlands with two motors and a double killek was a very progressive machine for its time. In particular, it provided for the Hermokabine and the electrodistant station management (which is the source of many problems into force of novelty). In reality, PE-2 is not so often, in contrast to JU 87, it was used as a peak bomber. Most often, he applied bomb shocks on the squares from the horizontal flight or from a gentle, and not deep dive.

PE-2.

The most massive combat aircraft in history (all of these "Ils" produced 36,000 pieces) is considered a real legend of battlefields. One of its features is carrying a bronorpus that was replaced by a frame and a trim in most of the fuselage. The attack aircraft worked at altitudes a few hundred meters above the ground, becoming not the most difficult target for terrestrial anti-aircraft drugs and the object of hunting from German fighters. The first IL-2 options were built single, without a bertler, which led to quite high combat losses among aircraft of this type. And yet Il-2 played a role on all TVD, where our army fought, becoming a powerful means of supporting the ground forces in the fight against the enemy armored vehicles.

IL-2.

Yak-3 became the development of the well-proven Yak-1m fighter battles. In the process of refinement, the wing was shortened and other structural changes were taken to reduce weight and improve aerodynamics. This lightweight wooden plane showed an impressive speed of 650 km / h and had excellent flight characteristics At low heights. Yak-3 tests started in early 1943, and during the battle on the Kursk arc, he entered into battle, where with the help of 20-mm shvak guns and two 12.7-mm Berezina machine guns successfully opposed the "messerrstam" and "fockers".

Yak-3.

One of the best Soviet fighters of La-7, which was admitted for a year before the end of the war, was the development of the Lagg-3 war. All the advantages of the "ancestor" were reduced to two factors - high survivability and maximal use in the design of the tree instead of a deficient metal. However, a weak motor and a large weight turned Lagg-3 in an unimportant opponent of all-metal Messerschmitt BF.109. From Lagg-3 in OKB-21, Lavochkina made La-5, putting a new ASH-82 engine and improving aerodynamics. The modification of La-5FN with a forced motor has already been an excellent combat vehicle, surpassing in a number of parameters BF.109. In La-7, the weight was reduced again, as well as weapons. The plane became very good, even staying wooden.

La-7.

U-2, or PO-2, created in 1928, by the beginning of the war was certainly a model of outdated equipment and was not designed at all as a combat aircraft (the training and combat version appeared only in 1932). However, for the sake of victory, this classical Biplan had to work a night bomber. His undoubted advantages are simplicity in management, the possibility of planting outside the airfields and take off with small sites, low noise.

U-2.

On a small gas, in the dark, U-2 was chosen to an enemy object, remaining unnoticed almost until the moment of bombing. Since the bombing was made from small heights, its accuracy was very high, and the "corn" caused a serious damage to the enemy.

The article "Air Parade of Winners and defeated" was published in the magazine "Popular Mechanics" (

Art draw on fuselages of aircraft - Nose Art - appeared during the First World War.

California art historian and Antiquarian Bruce Herman argues that the drawings on aircraft are a continuation of the European Knight's traditions of Heraldry.

"The pilots of the First World War's Times most often belonged to the ancient noble birth and may have seriously perceived themselves as new knights. They even had their own special knightly" credit code. "In the days of the Middle Ages, the knights painted their shields - they painted family Coat of arms. It is here that it is worth looking for the origins of the tradition of military aircraft, "says Herman.

It is worth noting that the painting of the aircraft of the First World War is distinguished by high professionalism and presents real artistic value.

"Most of the pilots of the beginning of the century before the war received professional art education," explains Herman.

During World War I, the pilots did not directly paint the aircraft themselves. The coat of arms, pictures and mottos drawn on canvas, which was then fastened on the wing or tail of the combat vehicle. At auctions, the price for such works of art can reach a few hundred thousand dollars.

The Second World War

With the beginning of World War II, the art of the painting of combat aircraft has undergone fundamental changes. Classic plots and classic art forever disappeared from fighters and bombers. His place was taken by popular cartoon characters.

Fashion on the "combat coloring" of aircraft rapidly conquered the hearts of pilots of the Second World War.

"The Americans turned out to be the most impest, but the most active artists," says Herman.

Few people know that the twin-bar of cartoon - Walt Disney was also the "godfather" Nose Art. After the beginning of the war, the management of the US Air Force hired artists from Disney Studio exclusively in order to be painted combat aircraft.

During the war, Disney Studio has created free sketches of drawings for coloring aircraft, tanks and even stripes on the form. Not only for the American military, sketches asked military units from Great Britain, Poland, China, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and France. At the time of the war, Disney allocated five artists for the needs of the army. For the Second World Disney Studio, 1,200 drawings for the military were drawn. The most popular hero was Donald Duck. The only hero of cartoons, which on military equipment did not paint never bembi.

Disney himself, who passed the first soldier World WarIn combat conditions, entertained what he painted his comrades in the helmets. However, Disney's creativity admirers lived not only in the United States.

"Disney was furious when he found out that a few dozen LuftWaffe fighters were drawn on the fuselage of Miki Mius," says Herman.

In addition to the animation, the main source of inspiration for military artists was Esquire magazine. Most often on the fuselages of bombers and fighters, pictures of the artist Esquire Alberto Vargas were reproduced.

Nose Art 1945-2003

After the end of World War II, NOSE ART has received wide fame. Now about pictures that adorn combat aircraft, they know not only in the sky, but also on Earth.

In the West, extensive catalogs of characters and drawings made on aircraft during various military conflicts are published.

The plot of the picture most often depends on the nature of the conflict.

It is worth noting that an unsolved aircraft, for example, in the US Air Force, is practically no. Pictures There are even on top-secret bombers B-2 and F-117. But in order to avoid misunderstandings, their pilots are drawn solely on the inside of the bubblyuk doors or other, invisible to the surfaces.

Officially, the only unit of the Air Force, which is allowed to paint the aircraft is the 23rd fighting group "Flying Tigers".

Decorating the image planes almost immediately after the battle aviation appeared. It is believed that the first pattern applied to the aircraft fuselage was the image of a marine monster on the nose of the Italian flying boat of 1913.
Later, applying a plane drawing began to call Nose Art. Initially, the images on aircraft resembled heraldic symbols similar to those that were applied to the shields ancient knights. It is worth remembering the stallion (Cavallino Rampante) of the Italian Asa Francesco Barakki on the pillows). This coat of emblem later used Ferrari.

Later, the drawings on the aircraft became more diverse. For example, on the fuselages of French aircraft from Escadrille Les Cigognes, storks were blocked. The most popular Nose Art became in the US Air Force during World War II. The initiators of the coloring of the aircraft often did not perform no pilots, but serving his staff. On the development of Nose Art in the US big influence Pins-AP provided. So, the image of the naked star PIN-Up that era of Betty Grab was concerned about many military aircraft. In the USSR, such libations, of course, were not allowed, but the drawings on the Soviet aircraft of that pore were also characterized by beauty and sophistication. With drawings on aircraft, many Soviet spectators were able to get acquainted with the film "Only" old men "go to battle." On the fuselage of the aircraft commander of the squadron Alexei Titarenko, who played Leonid Bulls, was depicted a tonal mill. The image of notes is no coincidence. Such a drawing, for example, was on the plane had a musical education of the Soviet pilot-attack aircraft Vasily Emelyanenko. It also remembers the plane that presented soviet pilots During the war, Rockov's ensemble. Cases when aircraft were built on the means of citizens were not uncommon. Such fighters usually had an inscription indicating how the car was created on whose money. Sometimes there was a small image next to the inscription.

The plane of La-5 Kostyleva in the exposition of the Museum of Defense of Leningrad.

Captain Alexander Lobanov (left) and Major Alexander Pavlov near La-5FN, April 10, 1945

Lieutenant Zabiyak G.I. Against the background of the name PE-2 of the 205th series. The inscription "Zabyaka" white color, zipper - yellow

Lieutenant Gennady Tocolaev. On board - the emblem "Guard"

Captain Alexander Nikolaevich Kilaberedze from 65 GIAP in the Cabine Yak-9, Belarus

"Lion Heart", Lagg-3 Lieutenant Yuri Plodov, 9 Fighter Airport Air Force

Commander Squadron 566th Shap Hero Soviet Union Vasily Mukhlik.

The IL-2 aircraft "Avenger" was built on the funds of the Chairman of the collective farm of Grigor Tevosyan, whom two brothers died in the war. Nelson Stepanyan flew on the plane.

George Baevsky (Right) and a mechanic Dogkin on the background of Yak-9U. 5 GVIAP. Airfield Sprotau, Germany. April 1945

At Kiel Lagg-3 Leonid Galchenko instead of the Red Star depicted a black cat playing with the mouse. 1942 year. Original cat was white

Malyutina Elena Mironovna and her swallow

Commander of the 180th Guards Fighter Stalingrad Red Banner Aviation Regiment Guard Senior Lieutenant Victor Lukshkov on the background of La-5FN, July 19

Major General Georgy Zakharov in the Kabina Yak-3. On the aircraft - Georgy Victorious, piercing the snake with Hebbels head. Spring 1945.

The pilot of the 958th assault aviation regiment, the hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Malelus.

Aerocker Vyacheslav Sirotina

Eagle Mikhail Avdeev

Airplane Vasily Emelianenko

Nikolai Pshenkov and his "Aerocobra"

Airplane Yak-9B of the commander of the 168th IAP of Lieutenant Colonel Grigory Khrushev.

Captain Alexey Zakueluk, 104th Gwyap

Airplane Alexey Alelyukhina

Captain Georgy Urvachev (left)

Fighter pilot Vladimir Dmitriev

Older Lieutenant Airplane Basil Aleksukhin

Fedor Minida and Alexander Pomazunov on the background of PE-2 with a crocodile

Airplane Abrec Barshta

Plane Nikolai Didenko

Vladimir Pokrovsky plane
Drawing drawings on combat aircraft during the Great Patriotic War It was not welcomed, although they closed their eyes. More often to apply drawings on the fuselage steel after the battle on the Kursk arc in 1943, when the initiative passed to the Red Army. Often, next to the image on the plane, an asterisk was visible in the number of knocked enemy aircraft (Spanish pilots began to do it for the first time). On the Soviet aircraft Victory could be denoted by asterisks of several colors. A personal victory was celebrated by one color, shot down in the group of aircraft - others.
There were cases when the fuselage decorated the image of the "Golden Star" received for the victory overwhelmed. Old traditions have been preserved: the nose of the fighter sometimes resembled the mouth of the mythical monster. In general, the frightening opponents drawings and emblems were often applied. For example, a dragon was depicted on the Yak-9 fighter, the toothy mouth was on the plane Georgy Kostyleva.
There were no special rules for applying the emblems. Each squadron had their own customs. Some pilots had their own emblem, others - common to all. Often aircraft decorated cards or a certain suit. As a rule, it was ace. It was usually applied distinguished pilots. Thus, the aces were drawn on the aircraft of La-5 Alexander Pavlov, on Lagg-3 Yuri Shilova.
Those who managed to beat the German plane of the famous squadron, placed on the fighter pierced by an arrow or sacrifice the snake of the emblem of this squadron or another similar symbol. For example, the squadron aircraft of the 9th Guards Regiment, who was commanded by Alexey Abelukhin, carried on beams invented by the pilot Evgeny Danish Emblem with a leopard tearing the heart. This indicated that the pilots won the 9 Staffel JG 52 (heart under the cabin were their distinctive sign). Animals were often portrayed on Soviet military aircraft. Were common and drawings of birds. So, similar images were on the aircraft of such famous pilots as Mikhail Avdeev, Vladimir Pokrovsky, Vyacheslav Sirotin. Symbolic images, such as arrows and lightning, were particularly popular.