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Old 11-26-2009, 10:18 AM
Oleg Maddox Oleg Maddox is offline
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Originally Posted by Insuber View Post
I've been corrected by a (real) expert, 150GCT_Pag: the noses of CR.42s and G.50s of CAI were painted in yellow shortly after their arrival in October '40, with German paints, to facilitate their identification and for sake of uniformity with the German ally.

So yellow noses were adopted starting from October 1940, independently from the directive of Regia Aeronautica of June 22nd 1941 (thanks to 150GCT_Pag for the clarification).

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Insuber
Ok, we will have both with and without yellow nose in a sim.
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