Talk:Westland Whirlwind (fighter)

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The photograph that is supposed to show the first prototype L6844 actually shows the second prototyp L6845. L6844 was never painted silver, but dark grey. L6845 was not completed before the firts production batch, so the picture was NOT taken in 1938, but more likely in 1940. Both can be distinguised from the production samples by their mud-guards.Dirk P Broer 00:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I found out that after September 1939 L6844 was camouflaged (page 4 of the Czech book). The colour photograph on top of the article shows the last surviving Whirlwind, P7048, which after the war became G-AGOI until scrapped by Westland in 1947. The picture is very popular and is shown on at least three Whirlwind publications, The Czech 4+ series book, The Airlife-Bingham title and Hall Park Warpaint title about this plane.Dirk P Broer 00:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

The image itself was probably downloaded from here, although the colour balance has been altered slightly, and of course the Warbirds resource group probably got it from somewhere else. There's another good picture here. -Ashley Pomeroy 14:10, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Nope on all three counts; I downloaded the photo from a World War 2 in Color website. FWIW Bzuk 16:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC).

I was talking about "the colour photograph on top of the article", which was uploaded by User:Maury Markowitz; you're talking about the shot of the silver-painted model here. It has clearly been colourised from black and white. It would be interesting to find out where the original comes from. -Ashley Pomeroy 17:31, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that, Maury had probably replaced my original photo which had been erased in an earlier deletion of all my World War 2 in Color downloads. It certainly does have a "colourized look". This is where it originated: <http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/British/abr> I think this may be one of the "cigarette cards" that were popular in prewar and wartime. FWIW Bzuk 17:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC).

Actually - it could well be an original colour photo - 60 year old colour slides or negatives may have deteriorated considerably, giving it the slightly odd colour balanceNigel Ish 19:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Many WWII era colour photos show really strange colours and far from our imagination of DSG or DG. Remember that paint can fade in really strange way and many of these "colourized" photos are original colour photos. Regards, Piotr Mikołajski 21:57, 7 July 2007 (UTC)