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How they did it back then.

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rcafmad

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This picture was found in the "Canada at War" website. I had always wondered how they painted the Allied aircraft in D-Day stripes.
 
I remember reading in Peter Townsend's BoB book how his squadrons' Gladiators (or was it Furies?) lost significant airspeed (like 5 to 10+ mph springs to memory) when they had to paint camo over the factory silver dope of the pre-war aircraft. They blamed the weight of the paint.

They also hated to loose the sleek silver look. Makes me wonder if it was just all subjective.
 
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