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This caused logistics problems that forced to have stocks of both colours and also made necessary to know the roles the aircraft played to paint them correctly.<\/p>\n
In January, 1934, the Head of the Material Division adopted a simpler criteria: Regardless of the role they were used for, all aircraft were painted in a two-colour scheme (light blue for the fuselage and chrome yellow for the wings and tail).<\/p>\n
When the aircraft were to be used in a tactical role, a camouflage water paint coat would be applied (this made unnecessary to keep stocks of olive green paint).<\/p>\n For practical reasons, the repainting process was gradual, when the aircraft were overhauled, and lasted for several years.<\/p>\n The black and White photographs of the USAAC aircraft, taken in the mid-30s, gave way to some doubts about the colours they were painted in, but the explanation lies in the two kinds of photographic films used by then: while the orthochromatic made the blue tones look like lighter, the panchromatic made them look like darker, often making it difficult to tell the difference between blue and olive green \u2013 even when there were no evidence that the latter was still being used -.<\/p>\n Even when the surviving Martin, at the time of its installation in Wright-Patterson, was painted in the blue-yellow scheme with the Alaskan expedition badge, at some point in the 80s or 90s it lost the latter because the Museum\u00b4s researchers concluded that the 33-146 was painted in a Green-yellow scheme when the 1834 flight was carried out\u2026And they concluded it was easier to rub out the badge than repainting the aircraft completely!<\/p>\n But there are no doubts the colours it shows today were the ones it was painted with in 1934: as Jeffery S. Underwood expressed in his book The Wings of Democracy \u2013 The influence of Air Power on the Roosevelt Administration- 1933-1941:<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cArnold\u00b4s bombers put on a colorful show for the residents of Washington, D.C. Instead of the olive drab fuselage and yellow wings of the Air Corps\u00b4s tactical aircraft, his planes sported light blue fuselages with yellow wings. Suitably impressed, the New York Times reported that that the planes arrived in Washington with \u201ctheir bodies and wings glistening in the sunshine\u2026exactly on Schedule. The flight had been made with the precision of a railroad train\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n The Flight had a badge consisting of a totem placed over a map of Alaska, decorating the aircraft noses, that can be seen in several photos (at some point the Museum\u00b4s Martin had it too but, judging from the Museum\u00b4s official photos, it has been removed) and it was also worn in the crew\u00b4s flying jackets.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Around 2001 we made a virtual visit to the, by then, known as the USAF Museum, and its website where we found the fact sheet of the Martin B-10.<\/p>\n There we found a very well kept aircraft, but painted in the Army Air Corps\u00b4s blue and yellow color scheme of the mid-30s while the fact sheet explained those colours had been worn by the already seen legendary Washington-Fairbanks flight.<\/p>\n Having confirmed that what had been established in the 2nd article of the donation law had not been\u00a0 fulfilled (the aircraft painted in Argentine colours) we wrote a letter to the USAF Museum director to point him out that breach of the law and asked him to study the possibility of reverting that situation\u2026 We had no answer.<\/p>\n However, a few months later we visited the Museum website again, noting that the Martin fact sheet had been updated with aditional information explaining how the plane had been adquired: it was pointed out that the Museum had been looking for a surviving Martin for years until it found an example in Argentina, as a training element at the Jorge Newberry (sic) Industrial School, starting the negotiation process to obtain it.<\/p>\n It ended explaining that, as a magnificent gesture of friendship between Argentina and the United States, and in recognition of its tremendous historical value that the B-10 represented for the United States Air Force, the Argentine Navy had presented the Martin as a gift on August 21st, 1970,\u00a0 the donation being accepted by the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, John David Lodge.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, something has no solution: To see the last (Argentine) surviving Martin\u2026 One has to go to Ohio!<\/p>\n We hope this may serve us to develop a concience of preserving our historical heritage, above all when it\u00b4s referred to unique pieces that are a part of the history of our Aviation.<\/p>\n Bibliography: <\/strong>Arguindeguy, Pablo E: \u201cHistoria de la Aviaci\u00f3n Naval Argentina\u201d Tomos I y II (Argentina, 1981), Keisel, Kenneth M: \u201cImages of Aviation – Wright Field (Arcadia Publishing, EE.UU., 2016), Maurer, Maurer: \u201cAviation in the US Army 1919-1939 (EE.UU., 1987), N\u00fa\u00f1ez Pad\u00edn, Jorge F.: \u201cMartin 139WAN (Serie Aeronaval N\u00ba 8)\u201d (Argentina, 1994) y Underwood, Jeffrey S.: \u201cThe Wings of Democracy: The influence of Air Power on the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1941 (EE.UU., 1991). Magazines<\/strong>: Airman (EE.UU., 1977), The Air Reservist (EE.UU., 1977) y Mach 1 (Argentina, 2001). Internet sources<\/strong>: Air Force Magazine, AvStop.com, Blog Aeronaves Preservadas de la Aviaci\u00f3n Naval Argentina, Blog \u201cEl MUAN\u201d, Histarmar, Joe Baugher, National Museum of the Air Force, Port San Antonio, The National Interest, TVD.im, USAF, USAF Civil Engineering Center y Weapons and Warfare. Acknowledgments<\/strong>: To Carlos Ay who colaborated with documentation and photographs from his personal files.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This section is referred to the Martin\u00b4s total restoration process between 1973 and 1976, ending with the installment of the aircraft in the USAF Museum, where it is exhibited until today, painted in the Army Air Corps paint scheme of the 30s \u2013 in contradiction of the donation 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Serialled C-123 (c\/n 191-674), it was the most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Defence & security"","block_context":{"text":"Defence & security","link":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/category\/defence\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"25th anniversary","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/006-1986-c-AW-01_edited.jpg?fit=1024%2C575&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/006-1986-c-AW-01_edited.jpg?fit=1024%2C575&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/006-1986-c-AW-01_edited.jpg?fit=1024%2C575&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/006-1986-c-AW-01_edited.jpg?fit=1024%2C575&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19,"url":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/south-american-c17\/","url_meta":{"origin":6363,"position":4},"title":"Boeing VP: South America may purchase “the latest model of the C-17”","author":"Carlos Ay","date":"Thursday 2 September 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Coinciding with the exhibition of a C-17A Globemaster III in Chile\u2019s air and space fair in March 2010, Boeing was reported as talking to prospective customers about the creation of a South American consortium to operate the type following a \u201ctime-sharing\u201d scheme already developed by several NATO air forces. 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Epilog for nostalgic Argentinians <\/strong><\/h3>\n
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