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Django wrote:
What's with the funny lookin' circles? ;) :twisted:

The Kiwis, though a process of total-loss experimentation, found that size of red dot in the centre of their roundel was proof against a US fight pilot swearing he 'saw it covered in meatballs'.

The Aussies dropped the red bit entirely, and asked their allies to stop trying to shoot down our American designed and built aircraft.

(PDF Doc on the attempted shoot-down of an RAAF PBY Catalina by a US pilot:
http://www.raaf.gov.au/airpower/html/pu ... finder.htm )

Ducks, runs.... :D

Thanks for the update folks, nice to see it. Looks like tahe old Old Flying Machine Co P-40, which was equipped, according to Mark Hanna in Warbirds Worldwide, with a backseat blonde...

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It's not the OFMC P-40 that was sold to the Old Stick and Rudder Company. That is still tucked safely in its hangar in Masterton.
And it's still wearing a pseudo AVG scheme....
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It's not the OFMC P-40 that was sold to the Old Stick and Rudder Company. That is still tucked safely in its hangar in Masterton.
And it's still wearing a pseudo AVG scheme....

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I should have said this scheme is similar to the Old OFMCo aircraft's scheme.

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It was John Chamber's NZ3119 P-40M c/n 27501, ex 43-5813.
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I think this is the same aircraft, taken a couple of years ago.

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