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Finally!  I found a tattoo of my favorite plane — the Boeing Stearman PT-17 Kaydet.  The “Stearman” was usually the first plane a cadet got his hands on in flight training during WWII, and it made a great many pilots.  After the war many Stearmans saw service as crop dusters and sport planes and today many Stearmans are still flying as a reasonably priced warbird collectable!

This tattoo was beautifully done by Thomas Graham of Supergenius Tattoo in the Boeing birthplace, Seattle, WA.

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Flying in from Rochester, NY, this Boeing 727 tattoo was sent to us by an airline fan who took his love for the famous three-engine airliner and made a permanent tribute to it on his skin. He said he always loved the three tone livery of United Airlines and chose that as the color scheme for his tattoo.

The tattoo was done by artist Kevin at Flesh for Fantasy Tattoo in Rochester, NY.

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A generous tattoo collector from the San Francisco Bay area sent us this fantastic tattoo of his based on a Soviet propaganda poster from the World War II era. The striking two-color tattoo features the rare Polikarpov I-16 “Rata” fighters found in the early days of the war on the Eastern front in Russia.

The contrast between the gunner and the aircraft is fantastic and very indicative of the powerful imagery used in such posters of the era.  The wearer was inspired by a print of the poster he has on display in his home. He is looking for some ideas on other Soviet aviation or space themes, so if anyone has any, please send them to us and we’ll pass them along!

The artist, Gauge of Gotham Tattoo in San Francisco, doesn’t have a website, but directions to the studio can be found at this link — and he allowed us to publish his email here if you are interested in contacting him.

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Certainly a unique tattoo flying at us today!  Pictured here is a colorful half sleeve highlighting the job of the crop duster — one of the riskier flying jobs out there, but a necessity in agriculture. The particular aircraft featured here is an Air Tractor AT-400.  The tattoo is presumably in honor of a loved one who was a crop dusting pilot.

The tattoo comes our way from Manakin Tattoo Studio, Pismo Beach, CA.

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A little change of scenery for a Monday morning — a tattoo of a dogfight involving the feared Messerschmitt BF-109 and a group of Supermarine Spitfires.  The scene, perhaps taken right from the Battle of Britain, was tattooed by Tim Dunne of Trader Tim’s Tattoo in Alderley, Brisbane Australia.

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A little bit of a change today — and only slightly off topic, but cool nonetheless.  This is a tattoo of Atomic Robo, the main character of a great new comic series from Red 5 Comics (I say new, but it’s been out for a year, so not really).  He’s a bad-guy fighting, wisecracking robot who has been seen behind the stick of a few WWII planes in the series… so if you don’t know of Robo, take a look at their site here.

Friend and fellow college alum Scott Wegener does the art and inking for the comic and is damn cool mofo in my book.  He was a flight instructor for quite some time before making the switch to art — and based on his success and talent, he made the right choice!

So that’s what keeps us on topic right?

The tattoo below — perhaps the first Atomic Robo tattoo — was created by Stretch at Stretch Tattoos in East Hartford, CT.

And yes, I am a fan of the series as well, wearing my Atomic Robo t-shirt and staring at the five first run issue number ones on my shelf!

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Just a small Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress for Saturday.  If you know your B-17′s, you’ll recognize it as the “Nine O Nine” currently flown around the United States by the Collings Foundation as part of the Wings of Freedom Tour with a Consolidated B-24 Liberator and a North American B-25 Mitchell.

This tattoo, done on a narrow forearm, was expertly executed by Steve Tiberi of Olde City Tattoo of Philadelphia, PA.

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