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On 2014-11-26 13:32:13 +0000, John Szalay <john.szalay.at.att.net> said:
> Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote in
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>> At least it doesn't have that overused
>> shark mouth thing.......
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> One of the engineers I worked with for years was a P-40 & P-51
> pilot with Chennault's air force in China, and he used to say the same
> thing. It bothered him when everyone else used the shark motif without
> asking permission from the veterans.
Why would anybody need to get veteran approval?
That is a degree of elitism which is not justified, considering the AVG
lifted the "Shark" motif from the RAF P-40s used in North Africa & the
Mediterranean. So it was not unique to the AVG regardless of the
association.
Then many of the USAAF P-40's used in Australia and New Guinea also
used similar toothy motifs. That intake was a natural for that sort of
thing.
There were even some P-38s which used it. More recently A-10s and
AH-64s have used it.
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Regards,
Savageduck
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