Subject: Re: B-17F for Gallery!
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "tadeu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:22:12 -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

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  From: tadeu 
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:30 PM
  Subject: B-17F for Gallery!

                                                                            Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 
                                                                                 by Tadeu Pinto Mendes

  History:
  The Fortress that became most famous was the B - 17F - 10 - BO nicknamed Memphis Belle ( Belle , the French word which means beautiful ) who was the first American bomber to make a record of 25 missions over Europe without having been slaughtered and have returned intact and performed this feat on 17/05/43 . This nickname was given by pilot Robert K. Morgan in honor of his bride Margaret Polk was Memphis - Texas . Had record 41-24485 and was the 8th Air Force and had the letters " DF A " that also identified as being the 324th Bomber Squadron . This has released more than 60 t . of bombs on Germany , France and Belgium . During his 25 missions flew 148 hours and 50 minutes. Also shot down 8 enemy airplanes . The mission number 25 was even filmed throughout its duration . This B - 17F which returned intact to England , then returned to the U.S. and his crew did outreach campaign to possible candidates for these missions and the Memphis Belle was later preserved . As usual , most of the B -17 had a single painting on the nose for better identification , and this was painted on each side of the female figure , with the difference of the left side is painted in blue dress and left in red ! So a painting on the wheel hub to bottom with these two colors , however with blue and red on the right side of the left . 
   
  Model:
  This is a great model from Revell which was first released in 78 in the U.S. and also injected in Brazil under license by Kikoler in the 80s which this model represents . With 108 pieces in all, its modules are very accurate and being a fairly pleasant ride in style. When this model was released , came to compete with the B - 17G in the same scale released a few years earlier by Monogram . The internal details of the B - 17F is however very simple and its bomb bay deserved to have been opened by the scale , as it was in the old kit 1/72 . Their turbo - compressors should have come as pieces apart, which would facilitate the painting. Like other kits until the '80s , this came in high relief ( ribs ) and not what would be more appropriate , intaglio ( slots ) . The fit of the hoods in the nacelles are quite deficient 

  Painting
  The famous Memphis Belle which his painting was always controversial. A documentary made on it during the war , was after six decades , remade and digitized , which has shown exactly the authentic colors of this B -17 in question . The B - 17F were mostly with dorsal parts by Hunter Brown ( FS 34087 ) and Memphis Belle proved that even then had irregular patches in 42 Medium Green ( FS 34092 ) for parts of the fuselage , and trailing edges of the wings , horizontal stabilizers and drift. There were several other copies of the B - 17F from the beginning of the war that were also painted as well , despite not having had a standard itself . As usual , still had the ventral color neutral 43 Grey ( FS 36173 ) . In the dorsal part of the rudder and ailerons and elevators were suffering because they were fading fast enteladas where modelers found in clear color Pardo - FS 34201 as the color might come close . However compensating these moving parts that were metal , remained in the original color . Leading edges of wings and vertical and horizontal stabilizers Black ( FS 37038 ) as well as helices. These tips in Yellow - FS 13638 . Other data are painting : Interior Green ( FS 24151 ) on the inside of the fuselage and cowlings . Reportedly , the B - 17F Memphis Belle had her painting changed in the postwar period and is preserved in the USA