smithart101
Airman
This is not another question about the colour of the nose!(BTW-it was red IMO and represented a pair of red lips 'blowing a rasberry' which fits in well with Gleed's flamboyant character).
Has anyone else noticed Ian Gleeds Hurricane P2798 has the Day/night scheme on the underside? A careful look at the photos -see attached-reveals that some Hurricanes in service during the Battle for France (and Gleeds was one of them), had the day/night scheme that stopped just before the tail wheel. A closer look at the photo of 87 squadron in flight shows that all the aircraft except LK-Z appear to have the same undersurface scheme, again, the black stops short of the tail wheel.The radiator intake fairings are clearly dark while LK-Z has a light one.The low angle of the sun is conveniently illuminating these as seen on LK-Z, so it cant be shadow. The pitot tubes appear to be light coloured though.
If the August/September date is correct, this seems to go against the standard scheme at the time. Did 87 Squadron just not bother to convert their older aircraft to the new scheme I wonder?
Has anyone else noticed Ian Gleeds Hurricane P2798 has the Day/night scheme on the underside? A careful look at the photos -see attached-reveals that some Hurricanes in service during the Battle for France (and Gleeds was one of them), had the day/night scheme that stopped just before the tail wheel. A closer look at the photo of 87 squadron in flight shows that all the aircraft except LK-Z appear to have the same undersurface scheme, again, the black stops short of the tail wheel.The radiator intake fairings are clearly dark while LK-Z has a light one.The low angle of the sun is conveniently illuminating these as seen on LK-Z, so it cant be shadow. The pitot tubes appear to be light coloured though.
If the August/September date is correct, this seems to go against the standard scheme at the time. Did 87 Squadron just not bother to convert their older aircraft to the new scheme I wonder?
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The pitot tube post was left light (aluminium?) even though the port wing underside was painted black. The attached photo (source: Camouflage and Markings #2 BoB RAF may to december 1940 by Paul Lucas) shows newly completed Hurricanes with this exact scheme.
