Classic Vintage Image...
Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:25 pm
Last edited by J.C.Seixas on Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:52 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:10 pm
Would that be a Douglas B23 Dragon?
Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:17 pm
ww2John wrote:Would that be a Douglas B23 Dragon?
Yep
Robbie
Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:10 pm
Question: were the red/black/white rudder stripes only applied to unpainted aircraft? All of the aluminum aircraft in that picture have them, while the olive drab planes don't.
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:16 pm
FlyingFortB17 wrote:Question: were the red/black/white rudder stripes only applied to unpainted aircraft? All of the aluminum aircraft in that picture
have them, while the olive drab planes don't.
When this photo was taken that was the case, yes. In October of 1940 the Army specified that camouflaged aircraft would no
longer carry rudder stripes. Prior to that time rudder stripes were carried on camouflaged aircraft, as evidenced here...
Oh, and the colors were red, white, and blue, not red, white, and black.
Fade to Black...
Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:52 pm
Peter-Four-Oh wrote:
Oh, and the colors were red, white, and blue, not red, white, and black.
Fade to Black...
This explains why the Air Force would not let me be a pilot
Darn color vision tests...
Re: Classic Vintage Image...
Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:16 pm
J.C.Seixas wrote:The photo was taken at Wright Field in 1941. Besides the early production P-40-CU, you can identify a Lockheed YP-38, Bell P-39, Republic YP-43, Boeing B-17, North American's B-23 and B-25 and a Martin B-26...
You can also identify a 1932 QMC type 50 airfield crash truck.
(Thank you Fred Crismon
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Re: Classic Vintage Image...
Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:51 am