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Originally Posted by boosed
An excellent beginning!
He told me that there was a rumor that the USAAF flew confiscated P-35s in combat in the Philippines still wearing Swedish markings.
I was never able to confirm that the U.S. P-35s actually flew in combat in those markings, but did acquire a photograph at the Air Force Museum of P-35As (the confiscated EP-106s) in Swedish markings taxying at Clark Field, having been removed from the crates and assembled, and not yet repainted.
Don
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I understand that they got them painted pretty quickly, but that didn't solve the problem of all of the instruments being metric and all of the placards being in Swedish.
Erik Schilling related a metric instrument story once about test flying the CW-21 that Madame Chang had bought for them. He said he was watching the instruments and was really disappointed in the rate of climb until he glanced outside and realized the altimeter was in meters, not feet. After that he was much more impressed<G>