Image talk:LeO 451.jpg

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[edit] Identification hints

Since the picture is not identified, here are a few points to consider:

• the fuselage roundel was only applied from January 1940 on
• no pitot tube is visible under the nose, which means this LeO's serial number is almost certainly above 80
• the paint scheme clearly includes none of the Vichy-era markings, not even the early ones (white outlined fuselage roundel and white stripe on fuselage)
• the vertical stabilizers are of the early (smaller) type. As the article says bigger stabs were retrofitted to all surviving examples from late 1940 on.

So it seems this picture was taken immediatedly before, during, or shortly after the Battle of France - early/mid 1940 certainly. The plane looks older than it really is - there was a problem with how paint was applied on LeO 451s, they aged very quick and lost large areas of paint after a few weeks of use only. This is visible on numerous wartime photographs. PpPachy 13:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)