| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2011 11:44 a.m. PST |
"This week, a historical photo, but in color, with the assembly of a B-25 Mitchell at the North American plant in Kansas City. This kind of plane we usually see them in black and white but in color offers a magnificent view of the construction of U.S. bombers in World War II. What stands out most is the yellow color of the undercoat painted on the steel of the cabin." From
link Who could imagin that the original color of the B-25 were yellow? Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| evilcartoonist | 20 Oct 2011 1:13 p.m. PST |
Wow, the color really makes it feel more real; It looks like a photo that could have been taken yesterday.
Glad to see they were building these in my hometown, too. |
| Florida Tory | 20 Oct 2011 2:30 p.m. PST |
That looks like the standard zinc chromate yellow primer used in the era. Rick |
| Kaoschallenged | 20 Oct 2011 2:57 p.m. PST |
I think it is Rick. I have quite a few color photos in my collection on my hard drive with the color being yellow in the factory before they were painted. Robert
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 gamertom  | 20 Oct 2011 3:35 p.m. PST |
OK, Kaoschallenged, I'll bite. What is the fighter being assembled in the foreground of your pic? |
| pvernon | 20 Oct 2011 4:14 p.m. PST |
Looks to be a Hawk 75 / P36 to me. |
| zippyfusenet | 20 Oct 2011 5:00 p.m. PST |
No way is that a P-36. The tail assembly is all wrong. Notice that the tail looks identical to the trainer planes that are being assembled in the background. The fighter is a P-66 Vultee Vanguard, an inferior and obscure design that the British took over from a Swedish contract, then turned over to the Chinese, who made little use of the planes: link |
| Kaoschallenged | 20 Oct 2011 9:27 p.m. PST |
Thats what it is. A P-66 Vultee Vanguard Robert. The photo was taken in 1941.
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| Kaoschallenged | 21 Oct 2011 6:56 p.m. PST |
Various types of aircraft and parts of then were painted in the yellow base coat till the USAAF discontinued camouflage painting of its aircraft. Robert
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| Lion in the Stars | 21 Oct 2011 7:32 p.m. PST |
Steel? Not much steel in an aircraft, usually. Lots of aluminum structure, and almost all of it in Zinc Chromate green primer. Zinc Phosphate is pretty close to insignia yellow, but ZP is a modern paint (chromates are bad, man…) |
| Kaoschallenged | 22 Oct 2011 1:21 a.m. PST |
Yeah. None of there aircraft were shipped out to the units i just the Zinc Chromate . There has been yellow on some aircraft. But mainly trainers and such. Robert |
| jowady | 22 Oct 2011 8:54 a.m. PST |
As others have pointed out the yellow, except on trainers was simply a primer, and even trainers were primed prior to painting. So no, yellow is not the original color of B-25s, anymore than you can say that natural metal is. |
| Whitestreak | 22 Oct 2011 10:17 p.m. PST |
Here's an example of the yellow painted trainer: tinyurl.com/635jzj9 I see it every Sunday when I volunteer at the museum. |
| Gozerius | 28 Jan 2012 8:01 p.m. PST |
Trainers were often painted yellow for increased visibility in finding the wreckage after a tyro augered in. |
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