StangStung wrote:
I have a question about the paint on the B-17. Does anyone know why there is dark shading along the rivet lines in certain areas? For example, in front of the cockpit on the area over the bombardier/navigator section? It also appears in the midsection. Is this due to faulty paint prep? Something to do with the riveting? Something else?
I've seen this on other planes, I'm just not sure why it happens and figure someone in this brain trust knows.
I really want to know the answer as well. I've been wondering about this myself for a while now. I actually searched this thread hoping someone had a definitive answer.
Ken wrote:
Are any replicas?
I've always felt like they have an oddly high percentage of replicas/composites for a museum of their stature. Nothing against them, but its hard to find a background on a number of the aircraft at the museum. The P-40, P-51, Spitfire, Bf 109, and a number of others sort of appeared out of nowhere. Not they're not legitimate or that you can't find some provenance on them if you go digging, but none of them really seem to be examples of aircraft where you go, "oh, I remember that plane when it used to be at such-and-such museum".
At least it's not like the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Russia. I remember reading the signs there and basically all of their aircraft were replicas.
Kyleb wrote:
A museum to house it and other WWII artifacts was supposed to be built on or near the Blue Ash airport in Cincy, but that project fell through and the airplane was acquired by the Nat'l WWII Museum.
More like the
airport fell through and the project followed, but yeah, that's the gist of it.
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