Author Topic: 1000+ WW2 Aircraft pics posted in newsgroups (Read 305 times)

SunKing · « **on:** July 05, 2003, 02:01:45 AM »

WW2 Aircraft pics posted in newsgroup

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author: GrayCreek_WW2

Various qualities and sizes . I'm sure some of you will enjoy these.

quick sample

frank3 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2003, 05:01:16 AM »

please tell me those 110's are yellow?!

bigjava · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2003, 06:32:58 AM »

tya SunKing going to ceck it now
hehehehe is years that i didn't use a newsgroup

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Originally posted by frank3
please tell me those 110's are yellow?!

hey Frank !
..........is the famous Bf-110-BANANA..........

frank3 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2003, 06:45:42 AM »

wouldn't surprise me a thing if they had written with big letters on it "here I am, now please shoot me!"

hazed- · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2003, 07:39:03 AM »

GUYS you better go check out some of the allied paintjobs!!!

I guess you havent seen the Bright Yellow with RED POKER DOTS!! (yes i typed it right) and green tailed B24 liberators of the 491st Bomb Group, 8th airforce based in North Pickenham(UK) in the autumn of 1944?

The idea behind these Glaring colours apparently was to almost disturb an enemy pilots vision. The bright colours meant the aircrafts outlines were hard to judge and therefore this makes it more difficult to judge its direction or speed etc.
Did it work? who knows? They even tried it on Battleships!! lol.

thnx for link

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2003, 07:49:19 AM »

Hazed I read the wildly painted B24s were used as formation beacons to get the bomber groups positioned correctly.

The 110 is not "yellow yellow" but rather RLM79 Sandgelb "sand yellow" which is a sort of kakhi/brown color - it lookls wierd because the picture has been edited.

Bodhi · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2003, 11:05:43 AM »

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Originally posted by hazed-
GUYS you better go check out some of the allied paintjobs!!!

I guess you havent seen the Bright Yellow with RED POKER DOTS!! (yes i typed it right) and green tailed B24 liberators of the 491st Bomb Group, 8th airforce based in North Pickenham(UK) in the autumn of 1944?

The idea behind these Glaring colours apparently was to almost disturb an enemy pilots vision. The bright colours meant the aircrafts outlines were hard to judge and therefore this makes it more difficult to judge its direction or speed etc.
Did it work? who knows? They even tried it on Battleships!! lol.

thnx for link

Hazed, bud, you are in error, the purpose of the wildly painted aircraft in the bomb groups was solely for group assembly purposes. They carried no bombs for the mission, just to be there to aid in group assembly. Now for ships, the wild colors the allies tried reulted in quite a number being sunk off IWO Jima as the wild colors aided in spotting, thats why it was abandoned, in favor of the older modular grey tones to break up the outline.