Subject: Re: Silly Week
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Rob Haelterman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 10:10:01 -0800

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

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  From: Rob Haelterman 
  To: Submissions ARC 
  Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 8:01 AM
  Subject: Silly Week

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  "P-51 Aggressor" 

  by "Rob Haelterman"
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  When the 8th Air Force; and in particular VIII Fighter Command, was founded in January 1942, everyone realized that the American pilots could expect no easy job. Reports that the RAF had passed on to the USAAC (later USAAF) left no doubt: the Luftwaffe was not a toothless kitten. To enhance the level of realism of their pilots, the 8th painted some of their P-51s to look like their opponents. The Bf109 was one of them

  On the selected aircraft, a profile of the Bf109 was painted, at full size, in the appropriate colors. Balkenkreuze were also painted in all required positions. (Since these aircraft stayed wel behind the front-line, the pilots weren’t overly worried.) Apparently the result was not very convincing, because the Balkenkreuze were repeatedly repainted in an increasingly larger size. 
  Pilots were hand picked, based on the amount of beer and sausages they could digest and their lack of humor. After a couple of crashes the daily consumption of beer was drastically cut back.

  The model is a stock Revell P-51B. The outline on the top wing was obtained by using the “camouflage decals” from a Fine Molds Bf109F-2, on the fuselage it was masked.

  Markings and colors were ill-researched by the Americans, as they are closer to those seen on the Russian front a year before.

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