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By The Armorer on August 27, 2006 | | Comments (15)

What's the most interesting thing about this picture to you?

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By Doug K on August 27, 2006 10:13 AM
Hmmmm....nose blister doesn't look right for a Wellington. Also, it appears to have a British roundel but maybe French colors on the vert. stab. (Hard to tell on that odd color and with my color vision. Only real flyable Wellington? Is it 1:1 or RC?
 
By Tbird on August 27, 2006 10:42 AM
What's interesting, particularly if it's flying over England, is that there's not a cloud in the sky. Normally, there would be clouds, rain, fog, snow, mist or various combinations of such.
 
By Rod Thorsen on August 27, 2006 10:50 AM
Pink panther in the rear turret, is this a model?
 
By wolfwalker on August 27, 2006 12:32 PM
The tricolor flag on the vertical stabilizer appears to be a standard RAF marking, judging from the pictures in a couple of my reference books. I think you can tell some subtle and interesting things from the exact design of the rondel, but I'm not sure of that. My first thought: If that's a vintage photograph, it's pretty high quality for 194x. If it's a recent photo of a vintage warbird, then I'm surprised to find there's still a Wellington flying. Really startling is that it has the same letters (Q-VR) as the one illustrated in Fighters and Bombers of World War II, so it's either the same airplane or it's been painted to match. Incidentally, said airplane is identified in the book text as belonging to an RCAF squadron. Why no high-quality version of the image? Did you not get one, or would it be a giveaway? ;-) Overall it looks just a little too clean and smooth for a warbird, so I'm going to guess it's an RC model.
 
By Doug K on August 27, 2006 1:26 PM
If it's John Greenfield's "Ghost Squadron" very large RC aircraft, the markings have been changed. I don't think there's a real one flying...wicked complex fuselage construction method. There is a nicely restored one, but not flyable, I don't believe.
 
By Trias on August 27, 2006 1:36 PM
Not much. I am wondering how the pilot gets out and what the window is for. The wing has the flat bit at the front rather than the back. Then there the guy right at the back.
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 27, 2006 2:39 PM
The window is to... look out. The guys in front and back are to shoot at bad guys attacking from the front or back, and the pilots, well, I'm not sure about the Wimpy, but they might have had a door they could get to, or, like a lot of the rest of the crew, they would get out through the bomb bay (this is assuming you're talking about needing to escape a shot-up aircraft).
 
By Casey Tompkins on August 27, 2006 3:18 PM
Hmmm. An aircraft with a night-bomber paint job flying during the day? :) Or is that a Costal Command paint job? I never read up on the CC paint jobs, although I know the Empire had an extensive anti-submarine aviation patrol running during the war.
 
By AFSister on August 27, 2006 9:51 PM
It's got a flippin' "target" sign on it. Who in their right mind would fly a plane with a 'HIT ME HERE' sign on the a$$ end. feh
 
By kat-missouri on August 27, 2006 10:03 PM
I don't see a second engine on the other wing. How's this thing flying? LOL (okay, I realize that is probably a trick of the photo, but it is interesting)
 
By Heartless Libertarian on August 27, 2006 11:34 PM
The only pics I've seen of CC aircraft were Short Sunderlands, but they had white underbodies. I'd assume any other aircraft would use a similar paint scheme.
 
By Justthisguy on August 28, 2006 1:51 AM
It's a model. There's no sign of the geodetic structure under the fabric which the full-size one had. The thing is entirely too smooth.
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 28, 2006 6:23 AM
It's got a flippin' "target" sign on it. Who in their right mind would fly a plane with a 'HIT ME HERE' sign on the a$$ end. Hee! That's *most* of Europe. And the US during WWI. You airplane geeks are no fun. Yep, it's a large-scale R/C.
 
By MajMike on August 28, 2006 8:25 AM
there's some kind of dangly thingie looking like a frayed wire appearing just fwd of the right side wing.
 
By AFSister on August 28, 2006 8:34 AM
Hey- I didn't say it was historically incorrect... just that it's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG to have a "hit me here" target painted on. Wacko Euro's.... :-)