It’s Shark Week in America, which, for the uninitiated, is an annual programming block on the Discovery Channel that was originally devoted to “conservation efforts and correcting the kinds of ...

These pilots flew P-40 fighter planes and became known as the Flying Tigers due in part to the famous tiger shark paint scheme along the nose. However, the nickname also stems from their official ...

But the aircraft is also famous for some ferocious nose art, especially the shark's mouth. An A-10 pilot told Insider about the history of the shark teeth war paint. See more stories on Insider's ...

Painting the shark teeth reportedly involved ... Today, it is almost impossible to see a surviving Curtiss P-40 without the famous shark smile painted on the front. Most who know anything about ...