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.

The aircraft is painted in the colors of the ... Those airplanes were the ones flown by the AVG. The archetypal shark mouth, as we know it today, first appeared on the noses of the Tomahawks ...

Aerial patrols of Australia's coastline will be extended amid increased shark sightings at popular beaches and warmer weather ...