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Boman
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Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 09:43 AM
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| Outstanding! The darker color certainly looks good on the Viper and hope it will be adopted fleet wide. |
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Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 03:46 PM
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| Looks awesome. Now if they would bring back the black noses like on the aggressor acft back in the day |
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Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 07:59 PM
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| Was it confirmed that all of the deployed aircraft had the new scheme? Or is this an "in theatre" test of the scheme? |
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Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 03:29 PM
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| I've seen this color scheme in person when we had the Lockheed block 52+ test jet down here at EFD a couple of months ago. Very beautiful indeed, nothing like a new paint job. |
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Boman
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Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 06:14 PM
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Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 02:15 AM
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Boman wrote:
"Seems that the new all-dark scheme has arrived at operational squadrons"
I think 482nd should adopt this paint scheme
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rebel
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Posted: Aug 20, 2012 - 09:14 PM
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| So, any Viper painters out there able to confirm this is the new scheme for repaints? Seems it would have shown up more often if this was the new paint plan since it first popped up almost a year ago? |
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Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 02:59 AM
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| As someone suggested earlier, it may be going over as a one-off to see how it fares in day to day ops. |
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Boman
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Posted: Aug 25, 2012 - 12:15 AM
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rebel
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Posted: Aug 25, 2012 - 08:27 PM
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336 is still the two-tone scheme. A little surfing revealed a few examples of the "new" scheme, hopefully it is more prevalent than the photographed examples would seem to indicate.
98-0004 and 98-0005 (both OT tail coded), 91-0331 (MN), 90-0848 (LMC test bird), 85-1551 and 85-1547 (both ED tail coded). 331 looks like the first Viper not directly associated with a test unit but as suggested this may be a deployment test before going fleet wide? Maybe someone will eventually chime in and confirm this is the standard for all repaints. |
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Boman
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Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 07:24 AM
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rebel
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Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 06:41 AM
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| Quick correction to my post above, 91-0331 should be 91-0391. |
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TimmayMan
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Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 07:21 PM
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| There was a test plane flying out of eglin with the dark paint scheme. Can anyone dig that up? |
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Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 07:57 PM
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