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Part II here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/bell-p-39-airacobra-color-photographs-part-ii/
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Still near the top of my favorite airplanes…
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It’s a beautiful design. The Soviets loved it because they operated at low level almost exclusively.
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Which minds me…
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On the rearming photo:
– I don’t see the overspray.
– What is that white on the ammo belts? I thought they were using disintegrating links on that, which were parkerized.
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Took just aft of the white band, it looks like they used 2″ tape to mask it off and you can see where the white drifted by. I expanded the picture of the ammo belts – they are disintegrating links but they are natural metal.
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OK, that explains it then!
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Makes sense on the links since they had little life span, but all the ones I’ve ever seen, post war modern or otherwise, were parked. A buddy of mine used to be the weapons curator of the U. S. Army Infantry Museum at the Benning School for Wayward Boys (He eventually retired, became the chief curator of all U.S. Army collections.) informed me that post-WWI when the Army “discovered” the joys of parkerizing, they parkerized everything they could get their hands on. He had a trap-door Springfield from the 1870’s whose bayonet was parkerized! 🙂
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