Hi Alain and all, The only Imperial Airways aircraft which had medium blue lettering was the De Havilland Albatross and this was a special colour unique to...
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Alain Bourret
alain.bourret@...
Feb 1, 2005 1:05 pm
Hi Roger, Thanks for your comments. Since most of us are modellers, it is important to faithfully reproduce the colour in question. When you see paintings or...
hi Roger and all, Roger, were Instone's blue and Imperial's blue similar colors (ie: dark blue)? The Instone DH 9's look blue, but the Imperial aircraft, if I...
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Alain Bourret
alain.bourret@...
Feb 1, 2005 1:34 pm
Hi everybody, I have just discovered an anomaly in the title of my message to Bill Matthews. It is suppose to be : "May be Bill could answer this QUESTION." ...
Hi Tracy, Instone didn't have DH9s ; they had one DH4, most of the photos of which are taken using ortho film which makes the dark(royal)blue look like light...
Hi Alain, I think maybe you should ask the question in the forum of the Imperial Airways site. Someone there may know. My 'opinion' is some aircraft types used...
hi Roger and all, you are right Roger, it was a DH4, sorry, it's still early for some of us :) Do you know when pan film became "standard" in the UK? It seems...
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Alain Bourret
alain.bourret@...
Feb 1, 2005 3:19 pm
Hi everybody, I will ask the "blue" question otherwise. As you know, the world is full of crazy people. There are gentle crazy like us and there are the...
Hi Tracy, I doubt whether pan film became 'standard' until after WW2, as there are a minority of WW2 photos which still use ortho film. Both were in use...
Imagine someone put a gun on your head and say; I want that you paint my Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Argosy model the deadly RIGHT blue color or I...
oh my, what a mess! Thanks for your explaination Roger, but this whole thing is giving me a headache...just look what it's done to poor Alain! And I thought it...
...or the importance of the witnesses. Today I received in the mail "Curtiss, the Hammondsport Era" by Louis Casey, a book describing every Curtiss design...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
zdk@...
Feb 1, 2005 7:53 pm
Hi All, Another image from the archives. As with many of these, what you see is what I know about it (except that I used to play on the mud flats in winter...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
zdk@...
Feb 1, 2005 9:16 pm
Hi All, It's come to my attention that Karlstrom drew a plan for Skyrocket SE-AFG which is relatively quite good. Does anybody have this? I would like to have...
Scot - Interestingly, Airfix got the Imperial Airways blue not far from right on their HP 42 kit. OK, 70-year old memory is a bit rusty, but I was interested...
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Alain Bourret
alain.bourret@...
Feb 2, 2005 12:40 am
Hi Carlos, I remember very well the thread on the Curtiss Model F. I was very upset because I was not in measure then to to remember where I had read...
Roger - No, Imperial never used black, as far as I know. The Empires were definitely blue - there is a very nice colour photo of one in an issue of Aeroplane...
Tracy - I've just discovered that I have a spare Transport Wings decal for their DH 86. The colour of the blue is just about right. If you'd like it, I'll put...
Alain - Since I usually read e-mails backwards, I came across Tracy's posting before I came to yours. I expect that my answer to him will appear to-morrow, and...
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Alain Bourret
alain.bourret@...
Feb 2, 2005 2:42 am
Hi Bill, Thanks for your explanations. Things are clearer now. Alain...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
zdk@...
Feb 2, 2005 2:59 am
Hi Tim & All, The NASM has this bass-ackwards. I was able to learn from this site that there are Miss Veedol drawings in box 113, folder 8 of the Giuseppe M. ...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
zdk@...
Feb 2, 2005 3:00 am
This is a transitional form of the logo seen in the late '30's. I had only seen this on a Ford trimotor before I got into the Fike collection. Cheers, -Lars...
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knuterha@...
Feb 2, 2005 3:36 am
Hei, ... Karlström drawings are published by All Om Hobby in Sweden, you find them on the web as http://www.hobby.se They have collections of Karlstöms RSwAF...
hi all, it's that time again. A super new issue of Internet Modeler is up at : http://internetmodeler.com/ Good issue with book reviews by yours truely, kit ...
hi everyone, here is a photo that I'd promised Rob a few weeks back, a BFW M 18b with a colored fuselage! It could be blue, but that is just a guess. The photo...
hi Bill and all, Thanks Bill. I'm not working on anything that I'd need it for just yet, but will take it if no one else needs it. A generous offer. Thanks...
