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Just watching the BBC news of William Hague about to get on to an apparently RAF 146, but the roundels were 'hashed' out. Anyone else notice, who might be able to elaborate?
NutLoose
2nd Mar 2014, 21:11
Thought he'd been to Kiev
He has, so I can guess that they didn't want a signature ac in that part of the world. Not a very convincing disguise though!
Archimedes
2nd Mar 2014, 22:48
When you say 'hash', do you mean the design on the cheatline, just aft of the cockpit, as per here?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/RAF_BAe_146_ZE700.jpg/640px-RAF_BAe_146_ZE700.jpg
The roundel is at the rear, as you can see. I've always assumed - and someone on here will know better - that the 'hash' is in fact the 32 Squadron marking, derived from the squadron's 'fighter bars' when it was on Venoms (and Canberras, for that matter).
That's it. I had a look for pictures before posting, but didn't have any luck.
MG,
See following link for higher resolution images.
Photo Search Results | Airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=ZE700)
Laarbruch72
4th Mar 2014, 06:47
and someone on here will know better - that the 'hash' is in fact the 32 Squadron marking, derived from the squadron's 'fighter bars' when it was on Venoms (and Canberras, for that matter).
It could be, however I worked on 32 for many years and whenever I heard this discussed the answer was always that the 3 white bars and 2 black bars simply stand for the squadron number, i.e. 3 - 2.