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J.C.Seixas
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Would that be a Douglas B23 Dragon?
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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.
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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...

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Oh, and the colors were red, white, and blue, not red, white, and black.


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Oh, and the colors were red, white, and blue, not red, white, and black.


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This explains why the Air Force would not let me be a pilot :cry:

Darn color vision tests...
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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...

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You can also identify a 1932 QMC type 50 airfield crash truck.

(Thank you Fred Crismon :D )

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