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JBoyle
PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:50 pm 
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I just saw the color photo in the August Flypast.
Great looking airplane.

BTW: What, no one is going to complain that the real Lou IV didn't have a dorsal fin? :D

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Baldeagle wrote:
Must be my imagination, or fluke in the print, but is the inboard part of the right wing a lighter shade than the outboard part? Also camo around the nat'l marking seems lighter than the tail decor.

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Yup, and also note the suggestion of two light-tone strips running fore and aft on the horizontal tailplane.
Those are better seen in the third photo of this link of Lou IV shot just a few days before her loss..
http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.co ... stian.html

Mr. Greenhill has presented an excellent example of Lou IV in "by the book" colors! :wink:

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