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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => WW1 Aircraft Information/Questions => Topic started by: kl122002 on April 07, 2013, 11:42:04 PM
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I have been trying to gain WWI aircraft information from web during this weekend, and I notice there are many colour variations to represent the aviator among the planes, I think it would be very colourful and remarkable when they were flying in the sky (not in war, of course). Will you follow these colorings/patterns when you are building the model or just simply create your own?
BTW,
is there any difference between "pilot" and "aviator" in English? Their definitions look similar in the Chinese dictionary.
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In answer to your question of the difference between 'Pilot' and 'Aviator' I found this -
the pilot by definition directly controls the aircraft whereas the slightly broader term aviator is a person who, though actively involved in flying the aircraft (whether plane, rotary-wing, powered or unpowered), does not necessarily directly control its path
I think it defines the two terms broadly as I know them.
HTH P
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When I was activly flying I was called ''an aviator'' but the main term used was ''pilot''. I think the term aviator is an older term used many years ago, today the flight crew have destinct titles, pilot, co-pilot, navigator, air electronics officer, load master, weapons control etc but in a sense are all aviators.
Colouring your model is entirely an individual choice, most modelers prefer to follow an actual scheme that has been documented, this will depict an aeroplane as it appeared when in operation. There are an enormous number of schemes available to cover nearly every type of aircraft that was ever built, some are quite plain drab colours while others were highly colourful, many aircraft especially during the war use the colours specified by the pilot as personal markings. You can of course paint your model in any colour you want, it is your model so you do what you feel best, but to be historically correct following a known colour and marking pattern.
Des.
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"An aviator is an artist in love with flight, a pilot is a technician." Or so the saying goes. My dad was a Naval Aviator, as the U.S. Navy calls it's pilots. That him in my avatar. The navy makes the distinction because in the navy, a pilot is a harbor guide. Aviator comes from the French aviateur.
Or you could put it this way, an aviator can land and take off of a carrier, and a pilot can't.
Sean