It certainly is. Far nicer than what gray got to fly. Saw a documentary on him, and in it they show a corsair that was taken directly off his ship and placed straight into a museum at wars end. What a god awful junker - when you're at sea and short on spares, you make do. And this lite was nothing but duct tape and hay wire. Those pilots had balls of steel just for sitting in those planes, let alone fighting in them.
WWII War Birds - pics and video
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Not exactly a WWII war bird, but is painted to commemorate them.
The 2015 RCAF CF-18 Demonstration Aircraft. Painted to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Brittan. (Picture from the CF-18 Demo Team Facebook page)
It's a cool tribute aircraft, but unless the colour balance is really off, they got them wrong. I admit in my younger days to be a plastic modelling nerd and I've got the full set of "Aircraft in Profile" and another set on Brit camouflage. And painted many a Spitfire and Hurricane in the correct colours. The underside at that time should have been what was called "Duck Egg Blue". The uppger colours were Olive and Dark Earth, if I recall correctly. It could be the result of blueish flourescent lighting, but the Olive was greener and the Dark Earth more yellowy. I'll have to look them up. Also, I'm not sure that the fuselage roundel had acquired the yellow surround at that point. Again, I'll have to dive into the books to be sure.
Re: the Heinkel 111 ...
My estimation of the Luftwaffe aircrew that flew in this aircraft just took a boost. Must have been hell to fly in the Meditteranean and North African theatres with that "glasshouse" cockpit and the opposite in the Russian winter.
Doesn't look like the aircrew had much of a chance to bail out. All in all, a rush job to create a medium bomber.
My estimation of the Luftwaffe aircrew that flew in this aircraft just took a boost. Must have been hell to fly in the Meditteranean and North African theatres with that "glasshouse" cockpit and the opposite in the Russian winter.
Doesn't look like the aircrew had much of a chance to bail out. All in all, a rush job to create a medium bomber.
Could be the lighting, here is a pic of the demo '18 out and a bout on the maiden flight (after painting). As for the color of the bottom, the CF demo aircraft usually only paint the top and almost always maintain the standard operational gray on the bottom of the aircraft. I think they have done a few complete paint jobs but not a lot. the 100 years of Canadian aviation aircraft was a full paint job if I remember.
On a related note, here is the Typhoon the brits did up.
I can notice quite the color difference, I wonder if the gloss paint used by the RCAF CF-18 compared the Matte paint used by the RAF Typhoon darkens up the appearance a little.
Cocked&Locked
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Pretty sure that the FA 18 doesn't have wing guns....the 20 mm is mounted off centerline in the fuselage. Possibly camera or target designators?
Cocked&Locked
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Not really a rush job, just by the time WW2 started they where getting long in the tooth. They came out as "cargo or mail" carriers in the mid 30's. Always intended as bombers of course, and when they where new, they where faster then any fighter that would be chasing them. Then they met Hurricanes and Spitfires........opps.
Donny Fenn1
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look at the CF-18 again, they painted the gun ports from the Hurricane on the leading edge of the wing, including the red dope used to cover the ports until the guns were fired
Dark Alley Dan
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HE111, beaten up, but made it home.
Good GAWD!!!
What shot the living hell out of that????
Doesn't look like a Battle of Britain era Spitfire or Hurricane shot that plane up, the holes are too big for the .303 round - even too big for the .50 BMG. I wonder if a late-war Spitfire armed with the 20mm cannon did that damage?
What shot the living hell out of that????
Doesn't look like a Battle of Britain era Spitfire or Hurricane shot that plane up, the holes are too big for the .303 round - even too big for the .50 BMG. I wonder if a late-war Spitfire armed with the 20mm cannon did that damage?
antiqueguy
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seems to me ww2 aircraft could take a bit of a beating I remember watching a TV show when I was about 6 years old in it they had video of a Lancaster flying with all kinds of holes in it from flak
