Oldbaldguy Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 On 10/16/2021 at 1:23 PM, ivanmoe said: Couple of WAVES applying copious amounts of soap and elbow grease to an SNJ. Check out the suds on the tires/wheels: Is it my imagination, or were women more slender back then? Is it my imagination, or is that white paint on the wheels and tires and not suds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmoe Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Oldbaldguy said: Is it my imagination, or is that white paint on the wheels and tires and not suds? Looks like suds to me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Could be white paint so they can see that the gear is in fact down from the ground.... Cheers....Ron RLWP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 The airplane looks to be gray over white in which case I think there is precedent for painting the tires white like the underside. Seems like I saw a photo of a PBY with main gear painted the same color as the side of the airplane. Might have been something else or maybe I just made it up. Old farts do that sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 9 hours ago, Oldbaldguy said: The airplane looks to be gray over white in which case I think there is precedent for painting the tires white like the underside. Seems like I saw a photo of a PBY with main gear painted the same color as the side of the airplane. Might have been something else or maybe I just made it up. Old farts do that sometimes. For 'suds' it's very precise - all on the door and the side of the wheel and tyre, none on the tread or the floor Looks like white paint to me! Richard Kaeone57 and Oldbaldguy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confusionreigns178 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Soap suds would not be anything like as uniform. It's got to be paint. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmoe Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 More SNJ pictures from Jacksonville, circa 1943: The gal wearing the service dress cap is Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Violet Falkum. The first pic was used in a Navy recruiting poster. Dirty old trainer perhaps, but those are some clean tires! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Is she supposed to be swinging the prop in the first pic? Not on a Harvard surely.....not the ones I've flown in anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 34 minutes ago, mozart said: Is she supposed to be swinging the prop in the first pic? Not on a Harvard surely.....not the ones I've flown in anyway! On the electric television currently is an advert for someone 'wanting to become an engineer' through some scheme or other. In one part she is clearly using a ratchet spanner, putting it onto a bolt on a machine and turning it the wrong way. It makes a lovely clicking noise and that's all Photographers no nothing about engineering Richard mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 6 minutes ago, RLWP said: Photographers no nothing about engineering Richard They don’t know nothin’ neither! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmoe Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 43 minutes ago, mozart said: Is she supposed to be swinging the prop in the first pic? Not on a Harvard surely.....not the ones I've flown in anyway! Men only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmoe Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 'Nuther pic of Violet pulling the plane's prop through: You gotta love this girl. dennismcc and MikeC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 15 minutes ago, ivanmoe said: 'Nuther pic of Violet pulling the plane's prop through: You gotta love this girl. It must be my age - I was just thinking what a good picture that is of the wheel wells... MikeC, Oldbaldguy and ivanmoe 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 There's an aircraft in the picture??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, MikeC said: There's an aircraft in the picture??? At least five Erm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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