Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:42 am
Jerry O'Neill wrote:Not mentioned in the thread at all, but what is the BuNo and is it a Goodyear or Vought aircraft?
Jerry
Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:28 pm
Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:09 pm
But I'm curious..what's with the dark sea blue on the undersides of the outer wings? Normally they were painted intermediate blue, like the sides of the fuselage and tail. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that I've never seen it before.
Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:45 pm
Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:41 pm
JohnTerrell wrote:Its registration seems to indicate that it will likely be living in Delaware - John O'Connor having been the owner of the P-51D formerly painted as "American Beauty" - now with Chuck Greenhill.
Thank you all for the added photos - what a fascinating restoration!
Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:46 pm
Warbird Kid wrote:Good to hear that this bird will be fairly local. Im in awe and cant wait to see this piece of art in person!
Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:33 pm
Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:52 pm
jaybird wrote:JohnTerrell wrote:Its registration seems to indicate that it will likely be living in Delaware - John O'Connor having been the owner of the P-51D formerly painted as "American Beauty" - now with Chuck Greenhill.
Thank you all for the added photos - what a fascinating restoration!
Not necessarily. DE is a favorable state to form an INC or LLC.
Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:15 pm
k5083 wrote:I'm pretty sure that dark blue lower outer wing panels were never standard; it was always intermediate blue.
In a lot of old photos it can be hard to tell the intermediate blue from the dark blue. In the 1970s this misled a lot of researchers/modelers/restorers into thinking that some USN aircraft were dark blue with white bottoms and no intermediate blue, which was never a standard scheme. You still see this on a few warbirds today, like the Corsair in Farmingdale.
However, dark blue could have been informally field-applied to the lower outer wings in some cases. I notice on this restoration that the dark blue panels extend inboard several inches into the non-folding portion, with a fuzzy demarcation line. That, also, is non-standard. Given the general calibre of the restoration, one would assume they wouldn't miss something like this, and that this aspect of the paint scheme is well documented. They've probably got a documentation book for the EAA judges with the evidence in it. It would be interesting to see.
August
Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:47 pm
Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:19 pm
Django wrote:What's the story on the red on the gun ports and shell casing exits? Did they use red tape to cover them up in combat ops? I've only seen "normal" tape used.
Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:49 pm
Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:36 am
D Fisher wrote:A couple more from today..
Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:24 am
Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:17 pm