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On 2014-11-26 13:32:13 +0000, John Szalay john.szalay.at.att.net said:

Mitchell Holman wrote in

At least it doesn't have that overused
shark mouth thing.......




One of the engineers I worked with for years was a P-40 & P-51
pilot with Chennault's air force in China, and he used to say the same
thing. It bothered him when everyone else used the shark motif without
asking permission from the veterans.

Why would anybody need to get veteran approval?

That is a degree of elitism which is not justified, considering the AVG
lifted the "Shark" motif from the RAF P-40s used in North Africa & the
Mediterranean. So it was not unique to the AVG regardless of the
association.
Then many of the USAAF P-40's used in Australia and New Guinea also
used similar toothy motifs. That intake was a natural for that sort of
thing.
There were even some P-38s which used it. More recently A-10s and
AH-64s have used it.

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Regards,

Savageduck