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Wonderful photos Zardoz, thank you for posting them :clap: :clap: :D
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Great pictures and thank you so much for showing them. Out of interest, are those RAF markings on the tail fins of the Mitchell?
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Vultee
Great photos. I owned a Vultee "vibrator" back in the 60's. It was great fun to fly. When I flew in for an AF reserve duty weekend I was mobbed by old time pilots before the prop stopped. Picture an Airman 3rd giving a full bird Col. a ride.
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Fabulous pics, thanks for sharing.
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Originally Posted by Jock Scot
Out of interest, are those RAF markings on the tail fins of the Mitchell?
Hi Jock,
they are a RAF-type red, white, and blue fin flash recognition marking:
http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/v...-rose_tail.jpg
If you go back to May 1917, the rudder on American aircraft was to be marked with three vertical stripes of red, white, and blue (with the blue stripe forward). In February of 1918, the sequence of rudder stripe colors was altered with the blue placed at the rear and red at the rudder post.
As a side note, a yellow border surrounding the national insignia (as seen on the fuselage of this bomber below) was used briefly beginning in late 1942 on some US aircraft based in England and North Africa.
http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/v...ellow-rose.jpg
The Yellow Rose
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Originally Posted by Jock Scot
Great pictures and thank you so much for showing them. Out of interest, are those RAF markings on the tail fins of the Mitchell?
They are, I'm not sure of the reason. ?
The plane is painted in North Africa Invasion colors, the national insignia on US and British aircraft was outlined in yellow for Operation Torch in North Africa, Nov.1942, to help gunners distinguish it from the Vinchy French roundel. The 13 horizontal red and white rudder stripes (as on the PT19) that US planes had sported since the 30's were eliminated in 1942 as well. It may a unit mark, or just be to help identify with the allies.
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What a beautiful blue-sky day to make perfect photos. Looks like you had a fun filled day. I enjoyed the pics, thanks for posting them
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Originally Posted by Zardoz
They are, I'm not sure of the reason. ?
The plane is painted in North Africa Invasion colors, the national insignia on US and British aircraft was outlined in yellow for Operation Torch in North Africa, Nov.1942, to help gunners distinguish it from the Vinchy French roundel.....
It may a unit mark, or just be to help identify with the allies.
As mentioned in my above posting, it was a recognition marking :wink:
The yellow outline on the nat'l insignia was also briefly used by some England based US aircraft during the same period.
Aircraft Insignia
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Thanks for the pics. My father learned to fly in Stearmans and after being a fighter pilot in England and North Africa he was a B-25 instructor.
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