Years ago I made the decision that I wouldn’t post photos of naked women on this blog. Oh, sure, that’s all very dignified and adult and such, but it’s hardly the road to financial prosperity. If you want to get rich, whatever you’re doing is more profitable if you drape a nekkid hottie over it. Why should this be? Because everybody likes nekkid hotties. It’s just programmed into us (well, most of us, anywhere). And knowing that it’s programmed into us, military forces around the world have taken advantage of that to make dry technical stuff more interesting to young testosterone-filled alpha males. Take, for example, this page from a flight manual for the Northrop F-89 circa 1957:
I’ve seen a few examples of this sort of thing… random illustrations of scantily/un-clad women and double entendre in technical manuals. The Golden Age for this sort of thing seems to have been the 1950’s… it sure as hell wouldn’t fly today.
And because why not: here’s the F-89.
