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Flights of Fancy
Money, Morality and SWA
Kyla Ebbert is the sort of woman who would never rate media attention unless she was involved in a serious crime or tragedy but she made national news in the US by committing a questionable fashion crime. In the summer of 2007 Miss Ebbert, a 23-year-old college student and Hooters waitress, boarded a Southwest... »
The Not So Red Baron
Forget today’s anemic, vanilla sex teenage vampires, and campy zombies, this time of year my memory conjures up Snoopy and his ongoing battle with the Red Baron, popularized in the Peanuts comic strip and in the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Snoopy’s nemesis was inspired by the Red Baron of history,... »
Lady Godiva’s Kittyhawk Connection
The Legend Most of us have heard the legend of Lady Godiva’s ride, naked, through the streets of Coventry. According to the earliest surviving source for the legend, the Chronica of Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), Godiva pleaded with her husband Leofric, the “grim” Earl of Mercer and Lord of Coventry, to relieve the heavy... »
Stuff, a Vietnam War Crusader
Ever since pilots started painting pictures of women on their airplanes they’ve been inspired by the great pin-up artists of their times. World War II era nose art painters for instance regularly copied the work of Alberto Vargas and George Petty. Playboy was the best-known girlie magazine of the 1960s. Playboy pin-ups and “Bunny” imagery... »
Jinkin Josie
Jinkin Josie is a Republic EF-105F Wild Weasel. Wild Weasels are aircraft modified and equipped to attack enemy surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites. Josie was flown by Captain Vern Harris and Captain Kim Pepperell of the 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron over North Vietnam in 1968. Compare Jinkin Josie’s nose art to Virgin Atlantic’s, Josie’s rather... »
Kate Moss is Virgin Birthday Girl
Virgin Atlantic celebrated its 25th birthday on 22nd June and Sir Richard Branson invited Kate Moss to the party. Moss, dressed in a red playsuit and Yves Saint Laurent Tribute platform heels, emulated the Virgin Atlantic flying girls, painted in the style of the Alberto Vargas pin-ups of the 1940s on the noses of the... »
