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Ident marking or stencil-Which gets priority?

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  • Member since
    April 2005
  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Ident marking or stencil-Which gets priority?
Posted by wing_nut on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:36 AM
I know that there are factory applied markings on an aircraft and there are making applied in the filed. My question is which would have priority as far as what is on the plane when stenciling interferes with identification/unit marking. I just finished a 109E and the large round blue on the right side of the aircraft was smack in the middle of the double chevron. It would have covered half of it so I left it off. I am not even sure what that stencil was so should it have been there even if it covered the chevron? Would the chevron have covered part of the stencil?

Speaking of the particular blue stencil… and Luftwaffe fans know which 1 I mean and can tell me what it is… better yet… is there a web site that has stenciling translations?

Marc  

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    May 2005
Posted by Ron Smith on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:19 AM
That's an oxygen service port marking, likely it was masked off or reapplied.
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    May 2003
  • From: Central USA
Posted by qmiester on Friday, October 28, 2005 5:22 PM
that sounds awfully big to me - seems to me that German service markings were usually 2 or three inchs in diameter max (on 1 to 1 aircraft) or slightly smaller than the door covering filler. and Ron is correct, it marks the oxygen service port.
Quincy
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