Paint job oopsies . .

[Tulio]

This is for fun! No rivet counting coming from me here.

Let's keep it light, no arguments, puleeeze!

I'll start with this, coming from another thread here:

Maybe the FAA didn't license the plane because "Experimental" is misspelled?!

-Pat

That prompted my recalling this:



Saludos,


Tulio

[Steve Nelson]

I don't have a picture handy, but there's a large mis-spelled stencil on the SR-71B at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo refering to the "Emergency Enterance." And that's not a museum re-paint, it's an oh-fish-ull gub-mint paint job.

SN

[FG1D Pilot]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks OK to me.

[chaser]

I used to run Aromatic Fuel....but when the New and Improved Aeromatic stuff came out I made the switch immediately....It's good to go greene..

[JDK]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks OK to me.

Pilot.

(JDK, also a natural spoller.. spellur... spellink...)

[Chicoartist]

Jack may have this shot as well (mine's not handy), but I have a large photo of Don Gentile standing next to his famous Shangri-La. You can clearly see the data block on the plane in the background. 43-6913 was built by North American as a P-51B-5, but before she went overseas she was modified to -7 standard with the installation of the 85-gallon fuselage tank. You can plainly tell where some dedicated modification center worker sort of "erased" the "5" and replaced it with the "7".

Little details ...

If Jack doesn't post it, I'll scan my shot and post a closeup here soonest.

Wade

[Swiss Mustangs]

I ain't Jack but I don't care





Martin

[Chicoartist]

Thanks for saving me scanning time, Martin! I knew you'd have something, but Jack is here all the time. That being said, the shot I was thinking of is yet another view.

Speaking of the 4th, Osprey will be coming out with their "Elite Units" book on the 4th in a few months. I did my best Jack and Martin imitation for the author Chris Bucholz and from what I understand a lot of my 4th FG collection will be in there.

... just wish they'd figure out that I had a good selection of 4FG cover art for them to use for $1 - long as they mentioned my site!

Wade

[n5151ts]

is UNACCEPTABLE (especially when created by the pilots consumption of BEANS) therefore only AEROMATIC (aviation related) GAS is acceptable...it makes perfect sense to me!

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[FG1D Pilot]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks OK to me.

Pilot.

(JDK, also a natural spoller.. spellur... spellink...)

You know I've seen it done both ways. After being "called out" by JDK, (the pilot thing hurt), I walked around the museum to check. It was about 50/50 how it was spelled. I don't know if it's from dumb spellers or a British thing. I found a photo of a P47 in England spelled aeromatic.
Ar is right. But I don't think the other is wrong.

[RyanShort1]

After being "called out" by JDK, (the pilot thing hurt)

Ah, don't worry - I figure he's just jealous...

Ryan

[bdk]

I found a photo of a P47 in England spelled aeromatic. Ar is right. But I don't think the other is wrong.

I think the base word is aroma, as in schmelly. Aeromatic is a trade name for a propeller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic_hydrocarbon

The term 'aromatic' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.

You might also be interested in "The Huckel Rule For Aromaticity":

http://members.aol.com/logan20/aromatic.html

Ehhhhh.... Maybe on second thought, not!

[Pat]

I wish I had a dollar for every time I saw the words "hydraulic" or "pneumatic" spelled/stenciled incorrectly on the heavy commercial aircraft that I've worked on in the past. I was also appalled at the number of mechanics who didn't know the difference between a hangar and a hanger.

-Pat

[Roger Cain]

Registration numbers are quite often found with transposed numbers on them also.

[Hal B]

We've got a couple rolls of tube identifying tape with "Instrumet Air" on 'em. Just haven't found any Instrumet Air lines to use it on