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[MIflyer]

I have often wondered at the more subtle color tones applied to many foreign aircraft as compared to the simpler OD/Gray/Blue/buck naked aluminum paint schemes used by US aircraft. I mean, colors like Sky Type S, black green, various shades of violet, etc. seem a bit odd.

But I suppose the odd color on this Ohka is due to its being a training aircraft. From Flight Journal article on what it was like to fly the Baka bomb. And was it really necessary too paint the national insignia on the thing? Afraid it might be mistaken for an American Baka bomb?

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[Viking1066]

The V-156 prepares for a demonstration flight during January 1939 Orv Field.Paris HEAT

 

[Viking1066]

'Gloster Gladiators of No 72 Sqn lined up at Farnborough during the 1937 Air Exercises.' No 72 was the first squadron to receive the Gladiator in February 1937 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

A beautiful LIFE magazine photograph showing a factory fresh FM-1 in the graded camouflage scheme January 1943 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

A trio of S82U-2s covered with rime ice during North Atlantic operations in early 1942 NATI

 

[Frog]

P-40 - Peterson Field information handbook august 1944.

 

[MIflyer]

USAAF P-70 at Guadalcanal. From Flight Journal

 

[CATCH 22]

An interesting way of testing aerodynamics of a plane model:

Must be one of the Convair's projects for a flying boat. The car is Ford Woody 1942 AFAIK.

 

[WARSPITER]

An interesting way of testing aerodynamics of a plane model:
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Must be one of the Convair's projects for a flying boat. The car is Ford Woody 1942 AFAIK.

Apparently that was a good job to have as long as you weren't driving when they were doing the water landing tests (they used that particular car because the wood
helped it to stay afloat long enough for the driver to get out). Then again, that could be something someone just made up.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Apparently that was a good job to have as long as you weren't driving when they were doing the water landing tests (they used that particular car because the wood
helped it to stay afloat long enough for the driver to get out). Then again, that could be something someone just made up.

I saw it on the internet, so it must be true.

 

[Viking1066]

Aircraft on HNS Unicorn being ferried to Australia February 1945 SAFO

 

[Viking1066]

Ex SE-ACK. Langensjöld family from Sweden purchased the plane and donated it to Finnish Government during Winter War (1939-40). Used by Swedish Voluntary Sgn F19 1942 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

This V-156-F number 10 of AB3 was at Heres Island after the Armistice SHAA

 

[Viking1066]

Enterprise Sqn COs flying F3F-2 F3F-3 and TBD-1 on BIG E's commissioning 12 May 1938 USNF

 

[SaparotRob]

One of those F3Fs ain't.

 

[Greg Boeser]

One of those F3Fs ain't.

It's an SBC.

 

[CATCH 22]

I saw it on the internet, so it must be true.

It is a real photo from the Consolidated-Vultee archive and it is not manipulated in a modern AI-way. I've seen similar test-trucks carrying even full size airplanes (small ones) mounted on them. Don't know the exact purpose of the tests though.

 

[Greg Boeser]

It is a real photo from the Consolidated-Vultee archive and it is not manipulated in a modern AI-way. I've seen similar test-trucks carrying even full size airplanes (small ones) mounted on them. Don't know the exact purpose of the tests though.

How do we know the guy didn't just want a cool hood ornament?

 

[Frog]

This V-156-F number 10 of AB3 was at Heres Island after the Armistice SHAA
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Base aéronautique navale d'Hyères (not an island).

 

[MIflyer]

Must be one of the Convair's projects for a flying boat. The car is Ford Woody 1942 AFAIK.

A friend of mine who lives in CA told me he heard that in order to test the airfoil shape of the Mustang's wing NAA mounted a test airfoil section atop a station wagon and drove it through the fog on the Pacific Coast Highway to observe the airflow.