I thought the aero helmet look was pretty cool especially with Discovery Channel’s Shark Week starting this week.
Well there you go…the PR department did their job then ;-).
I think they look cool as well…kind of like the old Tiger Shark fighters from WWII.
Please correct if I don’t have that accurate.
P-51 A & D version Mustangs
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…ahh cool, thanks for the info.
Any pics?
Here is one from Cyclingnews.com Picture Credit to Cyclingnews.com
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and another of Popo from Cyclingnews.com Photo credit Cyclingnews.com:
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If you are going to post a picture of it, then post the real thing. That picture to me seems not even to have American identification markings on it.
easy there kid…I am certainly no expert on the P51 as stated above. If you would like to share your pics of the P51 I would love to see them.
It appears to be an artists rendering as opposed to a picture.
It was the P-40 that had the markings that are on the Discovery helmets.
P-40
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Kind of adolescent to my mind. Sort of the thing that a college kid would like.
Kind of adolescent to my mind. Sort of the thing that a college kid would like.
Not quite staid enough for you dour Brits? ;^)
Ass.
Supposely the story of it:
“Before I left the United States in the summer of 1941, I asked a few friends in Louisiana to watch the newspapers
and send me any clippings about the A.V.G. Now I was being swamped with clippings from stateside newspapers,
and my men were astonished to find themselves world famous as the Flying Tigers. The insignia we made famous
was by no means original with the A.V.G. Our pilots copied the shark-tooth design on their P-40’s noses from
a colored illustration in the India Illustrated Weekly depicting an R.A.F. squadron in the Libyan Desert with shark-nose
P-40’s. Even before that the German Air Force painted shark’s teeth on some of its Messerschmitt 210 fighters. With the
pointed nose of a liquid cooled engine it was an apt and fearsome design. How the term Flying Tigers was derived from
the shark-nosed P-40’s I never will know. At any rate we were somewhat surprised to find ourselves billed under
that name. It was not until just before the A.V.G. was disbanded that we had any kind of group insignia. At the request
of the China Defense Supplies in Washington, the Walt Disney organization in Hollywood designed our insignia
consisting of a winged tiger flying through a large V for victory.”*
A.V.G. stood for the American Volunteer Group and was disbanded soon after we entered the war.
Ass.
If you guys weren’t so dour that would have been much more colorful! ;^)
Bjorn had a similar Giro Advantage done like that last year (seen here en route to his Timberman win)
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What’s your problem, House? You seem to be seeking out my posts just to send some personal attack. Have I offended you or have you finished pulling the legs off the spiders and wings off flies?