As most of you know, nose art is just about as old as aviation itself. According to legend, Da Vinci himself may have included a beauty from his hometown on early sketches of his proposed flying machine's fuselage. While that's certainly debatable, it is well known that pilots in WWI and WWII made it tradition to modify the noses of their aircraft with illustrations of popular cartoons, animals, and of course, vivacious pin-ups from back home. For young pilots and mechanics serving their country - most of them young men barely out of their teens - nose art was a much needed morale booster.

Autolite Annie was created as a tribute to the golden age of aviation and the nose art that has inspired pilots and flight buffs around the world.

Did you know? Americans didn't create nose art. The tradition has actually been traced back to Italian pilots in WWI.