Warbird Information Exchange

G'day folks,

A discussion on another forum prompted me to ask this question here. There are a few aircraft getting around today in the colour schemes of various famous aces. 'Big Beautiful Doll' was the one under discussion elsewhere. It seems that some schemes are popular enough to have been applied to more than one aircraft, in recent years.

I wonder whether there are more Big Beautiful Dolls than Glamorous Glens?

I wonder; what the most overdone individual aircraft scheme to be repoduced on warbirds? By percentage of surviving aircraft, I reckon it's Memphis Belle, with the real one at Dayton, the ex-Tallichet example and Sally B in the UK. That's three out of forty-eight survivors, so about seven percent.

As to total number of warbirds in the same scheme, I don't know. Ike Kepford's Corsair, or a particular Flying Tigers P-40 perhaps? There have been a few Spitfires marked up in Douglas Bader's scheme in years gone by. Not sure that any still are.

Just thought it could be a popular topic for discussion.

Cheers,
Matt

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Every other static B-25 is a Doolittle Raider, it sometimes seems like. (Okay, not really, but it bugs me the AF Armament Museum's example, which was the last B-25 in USAF service, was promptly repainted to a scheme that is incorrect in a number of ways.)

For Mustangs, there will soon only be one "Big Beautiful Doll", and that is the one flying here in the US. - There of course was also one that flew in the UK (and shortly from Germany) painted as "BBD", but that aircraft was destroyed a few years back. There is a static "BBD" at Duxford, but its paint scheme will soon be changing (likely a different 78th FG scheme).

For restored/flying Mustangs, there are two examples painted as "Shangri-La", two examples painted as "Petie 2nd" (and another painted as "Petie 3rd"), two examples painted as "Double Trouble Two", and there will be two examples painted as "Lou IV". There is also a static example and the well-known flyer both painted as "Moonbeam McSwine", and there are two static examples both painted as "Bunnie" of the 332nd FG. There are three flying examples painted as "Old Crow", but each are uniquely different (the B-model, and two D's painted in the two different distinct versions of the same original D-model). I believe there is only one painted as "Glamorous Glen III" as of right now.

(This also does not include the examples like "Cripes A' Mighty 3rd" and "Cripes A' Mighty (IV)", or "Red Dog XII" and "Red Dog".)

Last I knew, there were at least two P-38s painted as Bong's "Marge," both displayed in his home state of Wisconsin. One at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh, and the other at the Bong Historical Center in Superior.

SN

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What a fantastic idea. Take an ultra rare airframe, paint it in a really bad rendition of a scheme that is not at all representative and leave it outside to rot into dust!
Let's promote this fate for all historic airframes.

Andy

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There are two P-47s in the markings of Francis Gabreski's HV-A coded machine, neither of which are particularly accurate. One is the P-47N 44-89348 at Lackland, the other is the Kalamazoo Air Zoo's P-47D 45-49181.

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I think you mean 'Ferocious Frankie'

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I wonder if there currently are mulitples of the following (I know there have been at times):

Kepford's #29 Corsair

O'Hare's F4F (either F-3 or F-15)

Hellcat Minsi III

Bader's Hurricane LE-D

Glenn's F-86 "Mig Mad Marine"

August

I can think of three ...


CAF's of course, now sitting at Chuck Wahl's compound receiving some TLC until Thursday I believe.


I believe this Hellcat (was/still is) located at Pensacola and inside out of the elements.


CAG-15 and the F6F Hellcat flown by Dave McCampbell, the navy's top ace. (He is seated to the right of the sign) This aircraft (BuNo 70143) was lost in December 1944.

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I'm pretty sure the only Kepford Corsair is Rod Lewis' example:

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Also not sure about an exact P-40 (Chenault perhaps?) but agree there are several in a generic flying tiger colors with the shark mouth and nationalist markers, or generic shark mouth and US star.

A few "George Bush" TBM's I believe. At least there have been.

One more, as reproductions though, the Fokker Dr.1 in the Red Baron scheme. Multiple.

And of that matter…. 1903 Wright Flyer replicas… there all in the same scheme!!!

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