ANY WW2 Historians here??

I dig old planes... seeing them undressed is crazy. i got pics of the skins off some and it will blow your mind... (mechanics.. we are not worthy of that title)

I cant stress how much you should check out those two planes..[/QUOTE]

Over the last 2 years at the facility i work at we had bwen replacing fuselage skins that had been hail damaged on our regional aircraft. I would have loved to had taken and shared pictures of all that, but the company was adamant about not taking pictures of the aircraft in that condition being repaired, and especially pix showing the planes exterior paint scheme livery were not to be passed around on social media.

Needless to say it takes a 24/7 crew of folks roughly 30 days to reskin the upper side of one fuselage, and reskin the tops of the elevators and horizontal stabilizer skins. I was required to fabricate and build a pair of steel fixtures to mount the elevators in so they could be reskinned without warping. These also had to be certified for use by the aircraft manufacturer, and local FAA.

Good times man good times.