{"id":199983,"date":"2007-06-12T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/12\/warplane-nose-art-done-in-by-pc-raf\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T02:59:00","slug":"warplane-nose-art-done-in-by-pc-raf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/12\/warplane-nose-art-done-in-by-pc-raf\/","title":{"rendered":"Warplane nose art Done in by PC RAF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another grand tradition lost.<\/p>\n

PC brigade ban pin-ups on RAF jets – in case they offend women and Muslims<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In killer heels and little else, they have a definite deadly charm.<\/p>\n

But the risque images of women that have decorated warplanes since the First World War have been scrubbed out.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Defence has decreed they could offend the RAF’s female personnel.<\/p>\n

Officials admitted they had no record of any complaints from the 5,400 women in the RAF.<\/p>\n

But commanders are erring firmly on the side of caution and “nose art”, as it is known, has been consigned to the history books.<\/p>\n

Harrier jump jet bombers currently launching daily airstrikes against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan have been scrubbed clean to comply with the orders.<\/p>\n

Critics said the MoD should be focusing on more important issues – such as the quality and quantity of equipment available to British forces sent off to war.<\/p>\n

Nose art first appeared on warplanes during the First World War and enjoyed a golden age during the Second World War when thousands of American fighters and bombers were decorated with pictures of glamorous women.<\/p>\n

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Another grand tradition lost. PC brigade ban pin-ups on RAF jets – in case they offend women and Muslims In killer heels and little else, they have a definite deadly charm. But the risque images of women that have decorated warplanes since the First World War have been scrubbed out. The Ministry of Defence has …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,1011,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}