Bell YH-40 Olive Drab US Army A evocative early postwar subject

A evocative early postwar subject capturing the Mustang at the peak of its Guard service

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The 28th Bombardment Wing was a Strategic Air Command unit based at Ellsworth Air Force Base

The four variants represent four very different chapters in the post-ATSF lives of these cars:

the 2200 series cars served the Chicago 'L' for decades and marked the visual transition from the colorful painted liveries of the postwar era — as seen on the earlier 1-50 series cars — to the clean stainless steel aesthetic that defines the modern CTA fleet

Bell YH-40 Olive Drab US Army A evocative early postwar subjectThese are 1 72 scale decals for the Bell YH 40, the pre production service test variant of the helicopter that would become the legendary UH 1 Iroquois in olive drab. While the earliest YH 40s wore natural metal finishes, later service test airframes transitioned to the olive drab scheme that would become standard across the Army's Iroquois fleet. This finish represents the YH 40 in a more operationally representative configuration, as the Army