If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!
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johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
August 1942, Corpus Christi, Texas: "It's an intricate operation, installing a 30-caliber machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate." Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem
buffnut453
Captain
That may be a USN PBY but it's certainly not USN camouflage. Looks rather like the Dark Slate Grey/Extra Dark Sea Grey scheme applied to RAF Catalinas.
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
January 19, 1925. Loening amphibian plane. Maj. Henry Clagett, Gen. William Mitchell, Grover Loening at Bolling Field.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Strangely enough, only the right side of the the photo was colorized. That's why it seems to be grey I think. Correct me if I am wrong.
buffnut453
Captain
I think it's an original colour image.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
But see the lowest window on the blister. Take a look at the forward edge. Just behind the leading edge is goes from blue to grey back to front.
buffnut453
Captain
I'm not entirely sure if we're both looking at the same thing but i interpreted that as the demarcation between the Dark Slate Grey and Extra Dark Sea Grey camouflage colours.
One other detail I just noticed...there's a RAF serial number just visible above the crewman's head. That would also support my contention that this aircraft was wearing RAF camouflage (DSG/EDSG).
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
I think it reads F3178, but cannot be sure. But the back of the aircraft is blue. Not grey.
buffnut453
Captain
It may appear blue to you on your display whereas it may look entirely different on my display. I'm not going to argue over what you can see or how you interpret the colour.
However, the standard RAF upper surface camouflage colours for flying boats for much of WW2 were Dark Slate Grey (which, ironically, had a green tone) and Extra Dark Sea Grey
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
The caption states it's from a Kodachrome original transparency.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
ole_a_hoel
Recruit
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- Jun 1, 2011
Just to mention that the aircraft in picture 6 (next to last) is a norwegian Northrop N3PB used for anti-submarine (and anti-FW Condor-) patrols from Iceland in 1941-42 (RAF 330 sqdn). These were ordered before 9. april 1940 but after the invasion were delivered to the in-exile norwegian training camp "Little Norway" in Canada and subsequently moved to Iceland. Imagine how it was flying hours long patrol over icy waters in a single engined aircraft....
The single remaining aircraft of this type was fished out of a river in Iceland in 1979, restored by the employees of the former Northrop factory in California and is now on display at the aircraft museum at Oslo Airport Gardermoen (Nice little museum to visit if you come to Norway. They also have a beautifully restored Heinkel 111 and a ju 52, both crash landed during the fighting in Norway in april 1940).
Ole A. Hoel
The single remaining aircraft of this type was fished out of a river in Iceland in 1979, restored by the employees of the former Northrop factory in California and is now on display at the aircraft museum at Oslo Airport Gardermoen (Nice little museum to visit if you come to Norway. They also have a beautifully restored Heinkel 111 and a ju 52, both crash landed during the fighting in Norway in april 1940).
Ole A. Hoel
johnbr
2nd Lieutenant
Convair , XF2Y, Sea Dart
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