Photos from the USAFM

  • Thread starter James "Taffy" Jones
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Great pics James! I can't get over how much the control panel in the SPADXIII in BHAH looks like the photo, from what I've seen in the previews.

CJ
 
Great pics, thank you, James. The SPAD cockpit rather looks like a commander's seat in a Luxury Mahagony Mediterranian Millionaire's speedboat (lol).
 
LOL, yes it does! Another reason to love these old birds.
 
More pics

Avro 504K

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Using original parts, the Royal Canadian Air Force's Aircraft Maintenance & Development Unit built the aircraft on display with a 110-hp Le Rhone J rotary engine. It is painted to represent one of the 52 Avro 504K aerobatic trainers used at the AEF No. 3 Instruction Center, Issoudun, France, in 1918.

Fokker DVII
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Fokker D VII cockpit
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The reproduction aircraft is painted to represent the Fokker D. VII of Lt. Rudolph Stark, a squadron leader of Jasta (Fighter Squadron) 35b in October 1918.

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Wow, great pics again, James! The D VII looks almost good (don't like her edgy appearance much), the clours could almost be those for WOMENFLY2.
The cockpit looks, as if there was nothing but Lozenge fabric at the sides of the pilot? And what's that pump, right, below the panel - saw that in other sizes in other planes, too. Is it mixture control?
 
The pump pressurizes the fuel tank, keeps the gas flowing.
 
Is that DVII evidence of an early German "Don't ask, don't tell" policy?


Couldn't resist.... sorry hahaha
 
Thanks James

Yes indeed the Spad dash does look very much like the one in P2. It also reminds me of the dash of my Chris Craft boat.
 
Olham--"Don't ask, don't tell" is the shorthand way of referring to Pres. Clinton's attempt in the early months of his administration to allow gays to stay in the military. The military agreed not to ask about sexual orientation of recruits and soldiers, and soldiers agreed that they could still be kicked out for homosexual behavior or statements to the effect that they were gay.

Pink triangles, I believe, may indicate that one is gay or a lesbian. Hence, a pink aeroplane could lead to jokes about "don't ask don't tell." :kilroy:
 
Yeah, I thought, it would be something that direction, cause pink isn't REALLY the colour for an air combat plane - it's rather female.
But maybe in those days, it wasn't regarded that way.
I don't know, when the "pink-is-gay color code" came up, but I read somewere, that the Nazis marked gay people on the transport to concentration camps with a pink badge.
 
I think it's because pink is considered to be a feminine color, so pink on a "manly" machine, like an aeroplane (sorry, Womanfly2!) :wave: might imply that he was "light in the loafers," i.e. a poof.
 
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