Paint job oopsies . .

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

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:

Pat wrote:

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

-Pat

That prompted my recalling this:

Saludos,

Tulio

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:17 am

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 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:42 am **Posts:** 450

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

chaser · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 12:33 pm **Posts:** 13

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 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:18 am

FG1D Pilot wrote:

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

Pilot.

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

Chicoartist · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:46 am

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 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:52 am

I ain't Jack but I don't care :lol:

Martin

Chicoartist · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:06 am

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 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:00 am

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!

FG1D Pilot · **Joined:** Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:42 am **Posts:** 450

JDK wrote:

FG1D Pilot wrote:

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 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:57 am

FG1D Pilot wrote:

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

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

Ryan

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

FG1D Pilot wrote:

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

Quote:

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": :roll:

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

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

Pat · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:16 pm

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. :shock:

-Pat

Roger Cain · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:03 pm

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

Hal B · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:10 pm

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 :wink:

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