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scott585 said:
its worth noting that the pictures coulour is most likley off.

i recall a model kit when i was younger that displayed a painting of a photograph of the plane you were to build, and it showed a deep blue cowl. i later found out that the real plane had olive drab, not blue, and the old photo had faded over time
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with respect...you are using as a benchmark a painting of a photograph to evaluate a digital scan of a real photograph..or even perhaps a photographic negative. The aviators skin color is enough to determine that the photo's shown here are at least reasonably within the realm of accuracy....perhaps not perfect, but close. Gamma and saturation may be less than perfect...but the hue appears to be realistic.
 
scott585 said:
its worth noting that the pictures coulour is most likley off.

i recall a model kit when i was younger that displayed a painting of a photograph of the plane you were to build, and it showed a deep blue cowl. i later found out that the real plane had olive drab, not blue, and the old photo had faded over time
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Actually the color in that photo looks pretty good - you have several cues - the yellow life vests - the dark red paint in the dive brakes and the zinc chromate paint in the cockpit. yes - the photo is a little washed out - but I suspect that is sunlight. Also there were several different camo patterns for these depending on where they were stationed and who painted them, not only that but you can see a mix match of panels on this one, heavy wear around the service areas and LOTS of sun & salt bleaching. [which is what makes these look so cool & distinctive!]

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You'll see the odd Dauntless painted up like this one:

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I built that around 2 years ago - see the rest of the pics here: http://media.bigblockstudios.ca/Galleries/Avenger/

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Sorry - i didn't mean "like this dauntless" that's an avenger - I meant you will see the odd "dauntless painted ~LIKE~ "this" :)
 
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So I think I may have derailed this thread [again] - so I went looking for some historic pics of the TBM/TBFs that were serving up to about 15 years ago in NB as water bombers, to my knowledge the last 'in service' US WWII navy aircraft [citation needed ;)]

Has anyone got any recent photos or news of these? - I'm sure there were about a dozen 'on strength' plus another four to six as parts....
 
vermintrex said:
with respect...you are using as a benchmark a painting of a photograph to evaluate a digital scan of a real photograph..or even perhaps a photographic negative. The aviators skin color is enough to determine that the photo's shown here are at least reasonably within the realm of accuracy....perhaps not perfect, but close. Gamma and saturation may be less than perfect...but the hue appears to be realistic.
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the original picture also showed blue, the effect was supposedy related to altitutde and sun light
 
sean69 said:
So I think I may have derailed this thread [again] - so I went looking for some historic pics of the TBM/TBFs that were serving up to about 15 years ago in NB as water bombers, to my knowledge the last 'in service' US WWII navy aircraft [citation needed ;)]

Has anyone got any recent photos or news of these? - I'm sure there were about a dozen 'on strength' plus another four to six as parts....
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This apparently dates to 2010:

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And, let's throw a pic up:

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Bell XP77. Neat looking little speedster. Built out of non-strategic materials in the belief the Yanks were going to run out of those...
 
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I was stationed in Gagetown from 1980-82. During this time the NB Govt was still contracting for the use of converted Avengers as spray bombers against the Spruce Budworm. I used to enjoy going down to the Fredericton airport in the spring when they were tuning up the Avengers for the annual spray program. It was like watching an old WW2 training base with all of the takeoffs and landings.
 
purple said:
I was stationed in Gagetown from 1980-82. During this time the NB Govt was still contracting for the use of converted Avengers as spray bombers against the Spruce Budworm. I used to enjoy going down to the Fredericton airport in the spring when they were tuning up the Avengers for the annual spray program. It was like watching an old WW2 training base with all of the takeoffs and landings.
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Very cool, I asked google the same question and here's what I got:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/07/26/nb-tbm-avenger-shearwater.html

http://forestprotectiontbmavengers.wordpress.com/about/gldx-glex-series-go-series-canadausa/
 
Cool - Swiss Emils!

sail32 said:
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"Herr Kaptain! My sleeve! It's caught in your canopy! Kaptain? KAPTAIN!"

Seriously, I wonder what's happening there. Chocks are in, so Herr Kaptain ain't going anywhere, but the guy on the ground is certainly in an action-filled pose... Is he leaning into the propwash? Being blown off the wing? Peeing on the fuselage?
 
OOooooooooooo! RED CROSS planes!

"I would never shoot at a Red Cross plane!"

So said one American upon encountering these during a wander into Swiss airspace.

Always wondered what they did when those 50 bombers "accidentally" dumped a load on Schaffhausen......

......... apart from not shipping any more FLAK pieces in kit form to Adolf..........
 
Many years ago, I worked in rather a crazy place: CP Air Lines flight kitchen. Chef de Cuisine was former SS, had made dinner for Adolf in 1938, Sous-chef was Dutch and hated anything German, Second Cook was Austrian and hated "the Nazis" (he was former HJ but didn't mention it), things like that. My direct boss was Irish, sailed with the Merchant Marine on convoys for 6 years, most of the female help was Russian or Ukrainian, Commissary chief was a Dutch collaborator, Department head was an American draft-dodger, Janitor was a Pole who had been a prisoner of the Germans AND the Russians, escaped to France, then to England, Polish Arty up through Italy. The Polish janitor, the SS Oberscharfuhrer and the Irish sailor were the only ones with actual COMBAT experience .... and they ate lunch together. For them, the war was over and they could be human beings again. Everyone else still was busy hating but we all worked together okay.

But the Butcher was SWISS and his war experience may NOT be summarised in family-grade language. Nicest thing he said about it was, "SIX YEARS I am up in those stinking mountains, FREEZING MY A$$ off...... VAITING to be invaded...... AND NOBODY CAME!!!"
 
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But the Butcher was SWISS and his war experience may NOT be summarised in family-grade language. Nicest thing he said about it was, "SIX YEARS I am up in those stinking mountains, FREEZING MY A$$ off...... VAITING to be invaded...... AND NOBODY CAME!!!"
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And the main reason that NOBODY CAME was because they knew that he and a whole bunch of his buddies were sitting up in those stinking mountains, freezing their a$$es off, getting more pi$$ed off by the minute about the whole situation, and just praying for a chance to take their accumulated frustration out on somebody else's poor hapless mountain troops...
 
@ screwtape:

And there you have hit the nail squarely on its head.

In Canada, we don't have enough of a population density to afford an army to protect the whole country.

Like no other country in the world, we NEED a Swiss-type Militia.

Trouble is that we had one, 99 years ago.

Like everything else in this country not completely dominated by Ottawa, the Liberals starved it to death just as soon as they didn't need it.
 
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