Model Forum / General / Models / June 2010

Yes, they did for a short period of time. But then they were painted
blue for a short period of time and transition to the grey/white
scheme starting in 1957.

Cookie Sewell

On Jun 25, 2:27 am, "hill4...@gmail.com" <hill4...@gmail.com> wrote:

I saw photos of some, as well as early Grumman Panthers in NMF, and on
the Yahoo group for early jet aircraft was informed that these were
prototype aircraft. When accepted for service use, they were painted
as the salt sea air would have eaten the aircraft alive.

hill4448@gmail.com wrote the following:

I haven't seen that movie in a long while, but the plane that William
Holden's character flew was a F9F Panther. At the time I thought that
the Panther was the best looking of the early jets, so I remembered the
plane and that it was painted blue.
If there were Banshees in that film, I don't remember it.