“Pearl Harbor ” meets “Aces High”

Certainly the CV 990 was claimed in the ’60’s to be the fastest airliner in service.

There was ‘The Iron Maiden’ that looked remarkably similar to a Victor B2 😀 :diablo:

Regards,

Dan

p.s. people who have seen the film of the same name will know what I mean 😉

I do ! Some wonderful quotes.
“Please take that piece of Detroit tin out of here”
On watching same individual driving off and knocking down a stream of parking cones. ” Hey , you missed one!”
And my favourite, when our hero gets home from his beloved traction engine
“Mums looking for you!”
Thank you for brightening up my evening. 🙂
P.S. Roy Castle R.I.P.

The Hind and Sea Hurricane and both in serfectly accurate markings, so why buck the trend by a lack of research? 🙁

I would have thought that “research” would have made even you realise that modern materials and finishes only approximate the full spectral and reflectivity signatures of those used at the time.

Courtesy of “Albert Ross”

For someone who’s been supposedly involved in aviation for such a long time, you don’t seem to have learned much.
I’d have thought that keeping an aircraft in the air when it needed fairly substantial reworking was preferable to spending available money on painting an aircraft that may not be to everyone’s taste but is still perfectly servicable.
When the Gladiator reaches the point of needing substantial maintenance, then it’ll go through the same process.

I think you might find that the SE5A is next in line–or would you rather see that grounded for a bit longer so available funds can be spent splashing a bit of paint about?

Or do think that all old aircraft involve are pretty paint schemes?

A.

PS Yak 11 Fan–you kit the post key slightly ahead of me.

Surely to be fair , being involved in aviation means working with the design, construction or operation of aircraft. You can’t realistically expect this to include helping run a Toyshop.

I’m not a “markings” person as so many oddities and varieties appeared on operational service aircraft as to make it a bit of a tossers’ mizmaze . For what its worth and without checking on where the Potez 25’s actually ended up:
Yes, Brazilian markings of the period appear to have had a green outer ring, then yellow(Gold?) and blue centre. Fin flash ,from the front, Blue, Gold ,Green
The diagonal striped roundel seems to be a Uruguayan variation.
Post-war Yugoslav markings are as described above but I don’t see the fin flash on the sheet. Chile and Panama (and China!) amongst others included five pointed stars in their roundels pre-war but it doesn’t look like that is what we are looking at. That is of course presuming that it is a national marking.