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As I continued browsing through pictures taken at Oshkosh, I grew more and more curious about whether there’s indeed something special about ‘Red Strips on the aircraft tails‘..

On the opening picture you can see a tail section of another trainer plane, Ryan PT-22 ‘Recruit’ (ST-3KR), - look at the painting job on the rudder! Same red&white trim.

(You should appreciate a look of the aircraft’s front too: what a shiny spinner!)

And the very next to this Ryan was another plane with similar pattern on the tail!

Turned out, in Oshkosh there’s been quite a few of them wearing the similar painting job. Later on, after I finished that thorough walk-around by the ‘Ryan’, I bumped into one more interesting example: the homebuit ‘FlyBaby’ painted as a military trainer from 30s

However, the N7LK was built in early 70s. And of course, no one of the large ‘FlyBaby’ family have ever been ‘drafted’ to the military

Anyway, this observation made me thinking of the Yakovlev planes from a new angle..

(to be continued..)