P-47 Thunderbolts - Second Generation

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The only photograph I have seen with that logo on the P-47 is the one posted that started the search. There was one reference in a search result to the markings on the aircraft for the race but it only mentioned Reynolds Bombshell and #42. Too bad that really isn't the answer to everything.

Checking the various leads in the A-26 searches did not lead to any information on the various sponsors that might have been used for both aircraft. Subsequent searches keep returning the same results, just on different websites. There is even one in Japanese.

Some of the searches for images of Reynolds Bombshell netted various photos of Burt Reynolds and some well endowed women. Maybe OK for a dart board and aircraft nose art but not much help in identifying the logo in question.

[airdave]

Exactly.
I love the porn results.
Gives me something to look at when I don't find the thing I was looking for.
I don't feel so bad.
lol
I appreciate everyone's input on this.
Don't feel bad if I shoot down your theory.
I do the same thing with my own ideas.
I'll come up with some explanation, and then spend an hour trying to disprove my theory.
I even talk to myself in the third person!

What I was hoping for was more people searching
and maybe hitting onto a better photo of that graphic.
Or...someone recognizing the design.

Alas, this might be a fruitless expedition.

My only choice may be to leave it off the P47 completely.
Rather than put the wrong thing there.

[airdave]

Ryan...was considering more, that idea of a Pen related thing.
Haven't come up with anything.
I tried to come up with something related to that "6" that you can see in the second line of lettering.
"600,000 Pens sold daily" ?!

wow, I can't believe this little logo is gonna beat me!

Still haven't heard anything back from the site with that photo of the A26.
Hoping for a larger resolution photo.
I'll email them again.

[thorst]

Dave, I have invested some time in googling the logo yesterday but didn't find anything new. I also found no logo of Reynolds pens or similar fitting to the artwork on the aircrafts.

What I would suggest is to forget about your interpretation of the first letters. From my experience, if you can't read the rest, the letters you think to identify are mostly misidentified and lead you to wrong directions. If you have no idea about the whole artwork, be open to any kind of explanation and don't make preassumptions based on those letters.

Sorry that I can't help further...

Thorsten

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I posed the question to the "experten" on the Hyperscale.com forum. If anyone can identify the logo, it should be someone over there!

Les (The Voice of Authority -- VoiceofAuthority.net - The Voice Stylings of Les Dorr, Jr.)

[airdave]

Thorst...agreed.
I did the exact same thing today.
I have been through a ton of Reynold's Pen ads, trying to find a connection.

yes, I am stuck on those letters.
If they weren't so obvious, I would have dropped it...but I have found only one connection to the use of the number 6.
That has to do with the claimed time for the first unofficial Round-The-World flight. In a record 6 days and xxxh ours/minutes.

But I still can't connect the "L".

http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/...lt/letters.jpg

I have mocked up a graphic to use on the model...using the pen and paper artwork idea.
Its the best idea I have gotten so far, but I'm not convinced thats what it is.
The text is still a mystery.
So this graphic will be my fallback, last option.

I shall wait to see if anything comes from the hyperscale.forum. Thanks.

[RyanShort1]

Originally Posted by airdave

Thorst...agreed.
I did the exact same thing today.
I have been through a ton of Reynold's Pen ads, trying to find a connection.

Me too! I'm also currently in Dallas for work, so I've been trying to find someone with a Dallas Aero Service connection to see if there might be some local photos.

Ryan

[airdave]

That might be difficult...because the DAS today is a 1970s company (I looked it up)
And there was another DAS before that.
And then way back in the 40s, was the one we want.
lol
I found another Reynold's Pen sponsored air racer from the same period (post war).
A P-38 (F-5) with "Reynold's Little Bomb Shell" on it.
But no other logos that I can see.
Its also not associated with Bill Odom.

[RyanShort1]

Originally Posted by airdave

That might be difficult...because the DAS today is a 1970s company (I looked it up)
And there was another DAS before that.
And then way back in the 40s, was the one we want.
lol

Yeah, already figured that out, but you never know.

[thorst]

I know it's a long shot, but have you tried to overlay all pictures of the logo with a high amount of sub-pixel-resolution and sharpen it? This is a technique that is used in planetary astrophotography to get more details than visible on single exposures (for example with the program GIOTTO), but the problem seems to be adaptable here... If you want, I can try it the next days. It might be a total failure, but if nothing else helps...

Thorsten