"Newspaper clippings" & "Works of Art", I see...
At Mesaba the planes were porned.
Every imaginable location, it was like an XXX rated Easter egg hunt. The back sides of panels and yoke clips, under seat cushions, inside of flashlights, everywhere. Someone had made it their flight deck hobby to porn the QRH's, lots of girl on girl action with the word "Teamwork" written below in sharpie.
I suppose it was mostly dudebros doing it, though I'm told some of our female flight crew kept glue sticks in their flight bags too.
There were some Anti-porners too, they spent flights scraping it off. The mechanics were also tasked with it, with varying levels of enthusiasm.
Things kinda came to a head in 2008 as I recall. As I've heard it, one of our creepier male d-bag Captains was flying with a new female FO. The CA kept making the FO look for smut. I'm told the FO was initially a good sport, or maybe just didn't want to make waves, but this got old faster than light. Calls were made.
Eventually HR found out, as could be expected they had an absolute <radio edit> hemorrhage. And thus was born the Great Anti-porn Jihad of 2008. Our chief pilot at the time, DV, was out in the planes personally inspecting and purging them. Memo's were written, vauge threats were implyed. A few tried to fight back, but eventually it seems to have gone away.
I suspect the main reason for the disappearance of the smut was changing tech, most folks wanting to look at bewbs don't use print anymore.
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