P-51D Desert Camouflage

Anyone know if the P-51D ever appeared in WWII desert camouflage???

"bob" wrote in message news:4ouyh.5224$FM3.253@trndny06...
Anyone know if the P-51D ever appeared in WWII desert camouflage???




they were well finished in the desert by the time it came on the scene.

This is one of those "but I vaguely remember..." sort of replies, BUT:

Wasn't there a P-51 ten or twenty years ago being flown on the airshow
circuit in those colors? If I recall correctly, it was owned by a
female pilot who was criticized for painting a warbird in hot pink; she
identified the colors as the Egypt campaign desert livery and the
complaints abated.

I don't remember details. Anyone else?

David

Ray O'Hara wrote:
"bob" wrote in message news:4ouyh.5224$FM3.253@trndny06...
Anyone know if the P-51D ever appeared in WWII desert camouflage???




they were well finished in the desert by the time it came on the scene.

"David Kazdan" wrote in message
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This is one of those "but I vaguely remember..." sort of replies, BUT:

Wasn't there a P-51 ten or twenty years ago being flown on the airshow
circuit in those colors? If I recall correctly, it was owned by a
female pilot who was criticized for painting a warbird in hot pink; she
identified the colors as the Egypt campaign desert livery and the
complaints abated.

I don't remember details. Anyone else?


You're thinking of Sue Parrish and her P-40.

"David Kazdan" wrote in message
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This is one of those "but I vaguely remember..." sort of replies, BUT:

Wasn't there a P-51 ten or twenty years ago being flown on the airshow
circuit in those colors? If I recall correctly, it was owned by a
female pilot who was criticized for painting a warbird in hot pink; she
identified the colors as the Egypt campaign desert livery and the
complaints abated.

I don't remember details. Anyone else?


You're thinking of Sue Parrish and her P-40.

David Kazdan wrote:
This is one of those "but I vaguely remember..." sort of replies, BUT:

Wasn't there a P-51 ten or twenty years ago being flown on the airshow
circuit in those colors? If I recall correctly, it was owned by a
female pilot who was criticized for painting a warbird in hot pink; she
identified the colors as the Egypt campaign desert livery and the
complaints abated.

I don't remember details. Anyone else?

David


Your recollection is close. It was a P-40 and
AFAIK there was never any outcry about the Desert
Pink. I know I have a picture of it somewhere.

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Still about pink planes - was there a pink spitfire?


5 minutes later -
Just did a quick google - there are a few references to the above - but this
video clip is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvUN539a7A

Comment on the same page:-
pink is suprisingly good camoflage against clouds, they used it early in the
war before switching to p.r. blue, which is how this mark 11 is now painted

Cheers
Graham

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