Although the Flying Tigers are most strongly associated with the shark nose design, they weren't actually the first to paint the nose of their aircraft with eyes and a mouth. There were much ...

The F-20, despite having many things going for it, had some key weaknesses. Those weaknesses were exploited by America’s bureaucracy to make the case that the F-16 was a better plane.

Fast forward to the 20 th century, when the group known as the Flying Tigers painted the front of one of the top WWII fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40, to look like a shark with a gaping mouth.

Date Deployed: F-5N First flight: March 2003; F-5F First Flight: September 1974. Propulsion: (2) J85-GE-21C turbojet engines each producing 5,000 pounds (2,273 kg) of thrust. Range: Maximum ...