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Are the Full Scale Development F-16s painted overall Light Ghost Gray? The picture on page 5 of Lou Drendel's "Viper" book of the 4th FSD aircraft would seem to indicate that, but it's in black and white and I want to make sure.

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No, there were several FSD paint schemes. 75-0745 wore the red/white/blue "rollout" scheme for most of its test career. I have better info at home on the other FSD schemes, I'll look it up and report back.

FSD #1 75-0745 wore the red/white/blue "rollout" scheme for most of its test career.

Last edited by habu2 on Jan 21, 2004 - 04:48 AM; edited 2 times in total

Late in the FSD flight test program -0745 was repainted in overall light gray and fitted with the extended parabrake housing

FSD #2, 4, 5, 6 an 8 (75-0746, -0748, -0749, -0750, -0752) were overall light gray throughout the entire FSD program

habu2 wrote:

Late in the FSD flight test program -0745 was repainted in overall light gray and fitted with the extended parabrake housing

Haha! That's the first pic I'ev ever seen with another aircraft under a 'Howdah' screen! Cool!

FSD #4 75-0748

FSD #5 75-0749

FSD #3 75-0747 wore a unique two-tone gray scheme, here are two photos and the paint directions from the first Hasegawa 1:32 kit

FSD #7 75-0751 (the first two-seat FSD) also wore a two tone gray scheme

Here is FSD#4 on the left and FSD #1 on the right

Here is a group shot of all eight FSD birds with YF-16 #2 on the ramp at Edwards. I have labeled which is which, 748, 749 and 750 are indistinguishable in this photo so I can only tell the three are grouped together.

Finally, a photo of two of the Hasegawa 1:32 kits built as FSDs #1 & #3

Damn, Habu2 to the rescue. Thanks for the knowledge. Now I've got some ideas for that old 1/48th Monogram kit that's sitting in the model junk pile in my patio room. ..

Heh heh, h2 to the rescue!
btw...hey fast, since h2 lives in ol tecksus, I bet he's never had the pleasure of the essential goodnees, the quintessential purity of an In-N-Out burger....yesnot?