there aren't many photographic examples of crews doing something as un military as this to a ship, plane, helo, or tank, the SR 71 had a tail like a chalkboard, and that seems to have been a tradition with the crews

 

it was at Patrick AFB with mechanical failures in 88 or 89

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2023/03/tail-art.html

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