Hey here is a little bit of an esoteric aviation mystery.
This is a crop of a photograph of the back of a book I have: "The World's Strangest Aircraft: A Collection of Weird and Wonderful Flying Machines by Michael John Haddrick Taylor".
The main picture, not shown here, was of a (X/Y)B-49 being worked on at the Northrop plant. In the crop and enlargement that I have included below you can see there is a couple of unfinished Northrop X/YB-35 Flying Wing bombers, which in and of itself is not unusual as you know they began to convert the already built b-35's into b-49's. But what is unusual is that one of the unfinished airframes is entirely painted in yellow zinc-chromate! Why? I always assumed that the planes themselves where left in NMF and if this was true why the zinc chromate? And why just that one? Theories?
This is a crop of a photograph of the back of a book I have: "The World's Strangest Aircraft: A Collection of Weird and Wonderful Flying Machines by Michael John Haddrick Taylor".
The main picture, not shown here, was of a (X/Y)B-49 being worked on at the Northrop plant. In the crop and enlargement that I have included below you can see there is a couple of unfinished Northrop X/YB-35 Flying Wing bombers, which in and of itself is not unusual as you know they began to convert the already built b-35's into b-49's. But what is unusual is that one of the unfinished airframes is entirely painted in yellow zinc-chromate! Why? I always assumed that the planes themselves where left in NMF and if this was true why the zinc chromate? And why just that one? Theories?