Bell X-1 question

[eraucubsfan]

I am building the Eduard kit and wanted to do the orange and white scheme.  Eduard shows one wing being white, which also shows in the picture from the Smithsonian, but I can't find anywhere else that shows this.  Cutting Edge decals show just white on top and bottom.   I noticed the Eduard has the horizontal stabs white but the museum pictures shows them orange.  So is this a correct scheme?  

 

 

 

 

Edited January 22 by eraucubsfan

[habu2]

I searched my references and did not find a color or b/w photos showing this scheme.  I did find one 3-view drawing showing the white dorsal & ventral stripes & Vstab with the fuselage, Hstabs and both wings in gloss orange.  The drawing caption stated 6062 only wore the scheme late in it's career and only briefly.  No mention of the Glamorous Glennis logo with this scheme.

[Quixote74]

Fortunately footge of the last flight of "Glamorous Glennis" in 1950 was used in the 1957 John Wayne film "Jet Pilot" - in glorious technicolor 🙂

 

Screenshots on the Internet Movie Plane Database HERE show Eduard's instructions match the colors as flown. Presumably the orange horizontal tail and the nose art were added when being restored for display at the Smithsonian (I don't have access to my library to confirm, but I believe it would have been restored to the all-orange scheme correct for Yeager's October 1947 flight when moved to the Milestones In Flight gallery of the then-new NASM building when it opened in 1976).

[JeffreyK]

As Quixote said, this was not an operational scheme. It was painted just for the film. The paint scheme was later partially and then fully restored to orange.

J

[eraucubsfan]

Thanks guys