P-59 airacomet color scheme

Thanks Art, I just drooled all over my keyboard. That's not supposed to happen 'til I get word that my NX-01 Enterprise has been released.

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Bill Banaszak, MFE

Probably "AN Yellow-Orange", kind of a school bus yellow.

nice to remember the old days ,but im still in the present on trying to find the correct color scheme for the natc version,sea blue and what (yellow/orange/or ?

The one NATC picture I've seen was NMF for the most part; another navy photo that might have been NATC shows dark and light upper/lower--presumably blue and yellow/orange, but it might also be OD/neutral gray unchanged from its AAF scheme. The last USN P-59 was eventually done up in dark blue overall. There, that ought to cloud the issue thoroughly!

Mark Schynert

thanks for the info,.all my referance books just shoe b&w photos of that particular a/c

in article KN3Ua.73125$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc02.gnilink.net, Jack G at snipped-for-privacy@verizon.net wrote on 07/25/03 1:06 AM:

The Steve Ginter book on the P-59, "Air Force Legends No. 208" by Steve Pace, just says "Chrome Yellow" for the wings. (page 73). Three good B&W pictures but no color.

MB