Hello,
I've now located a better copy of this photo that was posted with an eBay auction about early April of 2004, some ten years ago. So a print of this is probably out there in the community somewhere. I don't know who either the original seller or the eBay buyer was. It provides a considerably better image of 3M+AA in the background, but I still need to locate an original print and scan that a/c at 600dpi to get a best image to work with for our profile. No question that a heavy overspray of 65 (light blue) had been applied to the side of the a/c, and a thicker black outline was added to the fuselage crosses.
Does anyone have an original print of this photo from which I can get a very high resolution, close-up image of 3M+AA?
Note that the caption, which indicates that this is certainly a PK photo released to the press, says that this is in France, but I still think that this is at Ste. Marie, Chevigny, AF, Belgium. If anyone has evidence to the contrary that would place this later in France, I'd appreciate seeing it.
http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-Tzv...-TzvwgC6-L.jpg