Before putting up photos of the finished Flying Tiger Hawk-81, here is some information about the pilot and plane.
Robert Hawthorne Neale 
was born in Canada on 3 May, 1914. He came to the U.S. with parents Joseph Thomas Neale and Margaret Osborne (nee Hawthorne) Neale in 1916. His father was English; his mother Irish.
The family settled in Washington state, living in both Yakima and Spokane.
“Bob” Neale was a US Navy dive-bomber pilot on USS Saratoga when he joined the American Volunteer Group headed for China. The AVG was activated on 20 December, 1941, and disbanded on 4 July, 1942.
Neale assumed command of the 1st Squadron on the death of its previous commander, Robert James “Sandy” Sandell, on 7 February, 1942.
He received the Distinguished Service Order from Great Britain for his service in Burma, and the Ten Star Wing Medal from China.
Neale was one of the pilots who volunteered to remain two extra weeks in China when the “Flying Tigers” officially ceased operations. It seems he commanded the US Army Air Forces’ 23rd Fighter Group during that time—as a civilian, until Col. Robert Scott arrived to take over.
Neal returned to the United States and found employment as a civilian transport and ferry pilot for Pan American World Airways during the remainder of World War II.
After the war, he settled in or around Seattle, Washington, where he ran a fishing resort until his death on 29 November, 1994, while residing at Stanwood, Snohomish County, Washington.
Besides commanding the AVG’s 1st Pursuit Squadron, “Bob” Neale was the highest scoring ace in the AVG when it disbanded, having achieved thirteen officially-credited air-to-air victories (although some sources cite fifteen kills):
- 23 Jan 1942: 1 Ki-27 Nate fighter
- 24 Jan 1942: 2 Ki-21 Sally bombers
- 26 Jan 1942: 1 Ki-27 Nate fighter
- 6 Feb 1942: 1 Ki-27 Nate fighter
- 25 Feb 1942: 4 Ki-27 Nate fighters
- 26 Feb 1942: 3 Ki-27 Nate fighters
- 3 May 1942: 1 Ki-15? observation plane
The 1st Pursuit Squadron in the AVG adopted as its “logo” an apple--usually green--in which Eve was depicted pursuing Adam; evidently the “first pursuit” in human history. There were a couple of versions of this insignia--but the one marking Neale's plane was the more elaborate.
This was painted on the access panel shown open in the photo above, and thus not visible.
Interestingly, Adam is shown in uniform, while Eve is not. Forum protocol being what it is, I will refrain from showing the insignia here; you'll have to do a google search for it, but the 1st Pursuit's nickname was "the Adam and Eve's."
The 1st Pursuit’s squadron recognition color was white (2nd was blue and 3rd was red), as depicted on the fuselage band. In addition, aircraft number 7 displayed white-painted wheel covers—a feature apparently unique to this plane, and not duplicated on any other aircraft in the squadron.
Below is the AML profiles from the decal instruction sheet.
