707A WD280 Red 14 Jul ’51 – Preserved Melbourne
Right, but only from sometime in 1952! WD280 was rolled-out in july 1951 in what is usually termed salmon pink and only later was repainted red: look at this two movie stills, the first is from the 1951 SBAC show and the overall colour is clearly different (lighter) than the second taken at the 1952 show, the key is the contrast with the red center of the fuselage roundel and the finflash.
When I preached for a colour image of this first paintjob I was not joking: I’ve never seen one and it’s often confounded with the pure orange of the second 707 WZ736 so we still need a definitive answer.
This one is very pointed, Cottesmore BoB display 1961, it would have been interesting to see it fly in, which one is it, I didn’t note it’s number at the time.
Hi Pete,
this is WZ736, the second airframe preserved in the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. Here you can see it in color, the image is taken from the wonderful book “Military Aircraft of the ’60s” and captioned as september 1961 at Cottesmore BoB display.
Regards
Fabio Beato
Now if someone had a colour photo of the alleged salmon-pink WD280 at roll-out… 😀
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