Your Old Pilot says, "This is interesting the way your webmaster designed these pages for you. The wood background effects, above, are from actual MIL-P-6070 mahogany plywood. The rib image is the nose end of a 'Clark Y' design 'flipped' on itself just behind the forward spar carry-through to be symmetrical. It's a camera trick, I guess.

"The weathered paint you see under this printing is from actual doped cotton fabric from one of the airplanes that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield a while back. You're looking at the outer surface of it, with cracks in the paint exposing the grey underlayer of aluminum powder mixed with clear dope as a first coat to prevent sun damage to the cotton fabric underneath. Details, details...I could go on and on!"