Jim MacDonald wrote:
Can anyone make out the cockpit colors on the TBDs? Still silver lacquer or zinc chromate?
Lynn,
Can you relent just a little bit more & have to sent to Vulture's Row? Also, is your TBD site still up? Haven't seen it in quite a while, but I enjoyed visiting it.
Mac
Hi Jim! It is still up and in fact, I posted a brief update to the TBD page last week after having to hunt down the FTP password- I hadn't updated it in SEVENTEEN YEARS prior to that, which is utterly shameful. But brother, there's a very, VERY large update being worked on now! Thanks for the kind words about the site!
So, onto the burning question about the interiors... as you've likely guessed, that's the second thing I've looked for in these pics (the first being any trace of a BuNo) and it looks like the floatation bag compartments on every example found thus far are in something like 34151 Interior Green, and I can tell for certain that the interiors of T-5, T-8, and T-9 are definitely green as well. The flap edges of T-4, however, are still showing aluminum lacquer and since she's upside down on T-9, it's hard to say what her interior color is.
By the way... Petrel JUST released more pics confirming T-1 as BuNo 0345, and T-11 as BuNo 0291. So there's two we didn't have previously!!!
Cheers,
Lynn