gunnyperdue wrote:
51fixer wrote:
There is a Motorbooks hard back book titled
T-6 A Pictorial Record of the Harvard, Texan and Wirraway by Peter C. Smith.
It has some interesting photos.a
Pg 55 has a very clear shot of AJ-930 in color or colour. S/N 76-3900. It looks like the steel tube fuselage visible is silver. The shot is of 4 Harvards in flight the closest, AJ-930, is #39 on the fus side. Photo is supposed to be 1941 or so.
This book also has the row of 20+ wings I mentioned on pg 26.
Rich-
That is an excellent picture... note the absence of the radio mast, it also has RAF Roundels on the wings. The most interesting thing about that shot of the wings stacked up, to me, is that the wings with the RAF Roundels are all located in the same place, the USAAF Roundels, however, are generally located more inboard... except for a several wings where the USAAF Roundel is located at the same spot (or a little further outboard) as the RAF one.... and two of those wings appear to be NMF and not yellow... the one the fellow is leaning against appears to be yellow.... this version also appears to be a smaller roundel than the 'normal' USAAF version.... this photo and the one of AJ987/986 (on p118 Olherich/Ethell, p79 Hagedorn) form the basis of my intention to use the USAAF roundel on the repaint of AJ832... the NMF wings are a confusing factor.
As to the roll-over structure being silver... that shot of AJ930 proves it... but does that mean the rest of the birdcage is silver as well... or just what was a consistent interior color... as I said I look forward to hearing your choice, as it will guide my own.
Thanks,
gunny
Dang, Pressure.
I would believe the entire cage would be silver. If they would paint any areas different one would think they would paint the area visible to the pilots line of sight black. T-6A manual shows all parts silver or unpainted in what few photos they show. Cockpit and all seems to be this way. I assume those pics are of prototypes.
Maint book also talks of finishes for steel parts, Landing Gear, control rods, ect, as Silver Aluminized Lacquer. This would fit as a Steel Part.
As far as Insignias on Wings I wonder if Navy was different than Air Corps. Maybe they just had different folks do it different. Harry interpreted the directions a little different than Andrew. Andy did the Navy Stuff and Harry the Army.
In the Navy logs there were at least 1 wing that was changed on our SNJ. But they were also probably changed at Corpus Christi as both wings have the same build date.
Our logs also show the Horizontals were changed at least twice and also at CC during O/H.
I would believe that there was a core to an A/C and then the components you would bolt on. CC was incorporating changes and upgrades to many parts. There is a list in the back of the Logbook and also plates were riveted onto parts, wings, Horizontal, Vertical, which also lists numbers on them. These are all Navy or CC numbers so the Logbook list tells what there were.
There is an assy line shown in the Motorbooks T-6 book and all the fus looked the same from a color. I got a NOS engine mount for Andrews T-6G a few years back. It was silver with the exception of the battery area which was black and was painted on top of the silver.
Guess I got some researching to do.
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