P-59 airacomet color scheme

looking at the hc kit box diagram pictures show a navy natc color as sea blue fusealage and wings that look yellow like the between the war a/c colors, but are listed as orange!,...which should it be and if its orange what color .anything like the bell X-1 orange ?

Reply to
RLGIRSCH
Loading thread data ...

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.

-- John ___ __[xxx]__ (o - ) --------o00o--(_)--o00o-------

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written - Henry Kissinger

Reply to
The Old Timer

All I had to climb on were the occasional freight cars left on the siding by the Reading RR. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Reply to
Bill Banaszak

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

Reply to
Frank May

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 ?

Reply to
RLGIRSCH

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

Reply to
Mark Schynert

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

Reply to
RLGIRSCH

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

Reply to
Milton Bell

PolyTech Forum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.