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Originally Posted by Larry Hickey
Peter et al.
The octane triangle was a factory markings, so it would have been applied before any tactical numbers. I think that the Yellow or ? 8 was next. The real question is whether the 5 or the 6 was next, with the other one of those two being the last application that it carried the day it was shot down. This a/c looks to me like it originally carried the 1939-style markings pattern, which was subsequently updated to the 1940-style, with a mottle added in the later summer of fall of 1940.
Regards,
Larry
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It should be perfectly possible to remove all the original paintcoat, preserving it for the posterity, and to analyse it. It is being done by art preservation institutes, just instead of fabric with Mona Lisa it would be the real skin.
21st August 2008, 02:50
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