Thanks for all the recommendations guys!
JohnTerrell wrote:
P-38 N345 at the War Eagles Air Museum
Interesting, I had no idea there was a P-38 still around that was
painted like that. What's the story behind that all-black (dark blue?) paint scheme? It doesn't seem like a leftover from a racer or commercial operator. The
complete lack of any sort of markings is really strange. I mean there doesn't appear to be even a single bit of text on the airplane anywhere.
JohnTerrell wrote:
I'd love to see the (recently now flying again) Spitfire MT818/G-AIDN in one of its old civilian schemes again.
I had never even considered that there would have been British warbirds in non-mil schemes. Postwar civil operation of warbirds in non-commemorative roles seemed like such an American thing to me.
quemerford wrote:
Noha307 wrote:
As an aside, while its nice to see so many looking like they did during the war, I think would be nice to keep one or two in non-military schemes to commemorate their time in civil hands.
I'm with you on that one!
On a sort-of related topic, when the RAF Museum restored its Hawker Tempest I recall there being a number of people who thought it shameful that a late WW2 scheme hadn't been chosen. But those lesser-often seen colours are also part of aviation history and it's easy to forget that brave men and women also died whilst doing 'mundane' jobs like towing targets, training to fly, or dropping fire retardant.
It would be cool, but unfortunately because everyone expects warbirds to be commemorating military history (and 99% of the public would have no idea what they're looking at) I don't think it will ever happen. Also, I thought the one in the RAFM
was in a
late/postwar scheme. I might be thinking of the wrong airframe though.
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