Фотографии
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Rollout. Resplendent in its new 351st Bomb Group colours, 44-8846 lacks only its nose art.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] The completed Pink Lady nose art, painted freehand by Gilles Conte. Taped alongside is the 1940s Vargas pin-up which inspired it.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] In the B-17’s usual maintenance hangar at Paris-Orly, the aircraft’s sensitive areas have been masked off before external deep cleaning in preparation for the new coat of paint.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] The B-17 in the vast AFI paintshop. Olive Drab paint is being applied by the same special process used on such types as Airbus and Transall C.160 - an example of the latter is seen newly-primed in the background.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941Transall C.160 Transall - International - 1963
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Original stencil lettering was scanned from an old American book, and new masks computer-generated. The lettering was then applied in ink rather than paint.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] EMPA, a specialist cleaning company usually employed by Air France Industries (AFI), used E-type gasoline to wash off markings applied for the filming of Memphis Belle.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Patrice Hammonet completes paint-scouring with a special electric sander.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Four painters did the whole aircraft; it took only 30min for these two to complete one wing's upper surface.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Patrick Arno tapes the painting masks in place; they were computer-generated by AFI's paint department.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Removal of old paint beneath the wings revealed the former IGN civil registration F-BGSP. The aircraft now operates as F-AZDX.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
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Регистрационный номер: F-AZDX [11], F-BGSP [11] Painted but without markings, and seen from beneath the workshop roof, the B-17 resembles a newly-completed plastic model just awaiting its transfers.
Самолёты на фотографии: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - США - 1941
Статьи
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- Hawker Siddeley Gnat T.1 XP534/G-BVPP /Preservation Profile/
- Personal album. Military
- Skywriters
- A.Stewart - Jack & Jenny
- A.Welch - A Different World (2)
- B.Jones - Perfecting the power (4)
- H.Levy - Return to Oshkosh
- J.Golley - Working with a genius (2)
- M.Hooks - Farnborough 50th
- M.Hooks - Together again
- M.Oakey, T.Harmsworth - Vintage news
- R.Paver - Warbirds at Woodchurch
- R.Riding - A Broad experience (1)
- T.Neil - A Servant of Four Masters
- X.Meal - Repainting the Pink Lady