RE: (erielack) What is wrong with this picture?

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net>]

> > First off, that photo is so small, how can you really tell?
> > 
> > And attached is an example of another wreck repair - this one is 
> > missing the "wing" to the left of the nose door. A similar 
> "effect" as 
> > the other photo, no?
> 
> No.
> 
> Look at all the yellow paint on top of the nose, along the 
> top of the side, the width of the stripe under the radiator 
> band, and along the sill.  Now, go look at the other photo.  
> Virtually none of that stuff is there, as it was not on the 
> as-delivered paint scheme for FTs.

So then, we have a mystery. The slide is (a) supposedly taken in 1956, and
(b) features the top of the as-delivered scheme (with the thin yellow band
under the windshield, and the lower part of a post-1946 scheme (when the
"original scheme" FTs got their full yellow bib treatment.

My guess? A Photoshop job, or some wiseacre in the paint shops having some
fun. Since this is supposed to be 1956, ten years after the "full bib"
standardization, I can't imagine this is one that "got away" and was later
partially "bibbed."

	- Paul


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