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Rhino power
6th Apr 2016, 10:08
ORANG's recently rolled out, 75th anniversary F-15C, looking stunning!
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t31.0-8/12961326_638125963012047_1959347231660492382_o.jpg
-RP
Tourist
6th Apr 2016, 16:46
Wow, didn't realise the F15 had been around that long!
Rosevidney1
6th Apr 2016, 17:37
Time flies when you're having fun!
RAFEngO74to09
6th Apr 2016, 17:40
Nice !
http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Oregon-ANG-special-4-706x468.jpg
No disrespect, folks, but I find it strange how people go all moist over paint jobs on aircraft.
Does that make them better, or faster, or more operationally capable?
Or is it just a slightly expensive ego trip?
<hides in bunker>
Courtney Mil
6th Apr 2016, 19:21
Or just looks good.
Geordie_Expat
6th Apr 2016, 19:34
It isn't just a paint job. Beautifully done with the wing- and tail-feathers not to mention the head. Lot of work gone into that for a superb result.
Albert Driver
6th Apr 2016, 19:39
Purely practical, of course.
Reduces bird strikes.
Should be made compulsory.......
CoffmanStarter
6th Apr 2016, 19:41
That's a very large saucer of warm water to apply all those 'transfers' ;)
For our American cousins 'transfers' = 'decals'
Warmtoast
6th Apr 2016, 19:53
Tourist
Wow, didn't realise the F15 had been around that long!
It hasn't - it's the Oregon Air National Guard (ORANG) who are celebrating their 75th Anniversary.
Lantern10
6th Apr 2016, 21:21
^Thanks for clearing that up.
Rhino power
6th Apr 2016, 21:55
Tourist
It hasn't - it's the Oregon Air National Guard (ORANG) who are celebrating their 75th Anniversary.
Yeah, I think he gets that... :rolleyes:
-RP
stilton
7th Apr 2016, 04:56
Still, imagine what a few Eagles could have done in 1941..
Shades of 'Final Countdown'
Willard Whyte
9th Apr 2016, 11:55
Still, Eagle's entry in to service was closer to the formation of ORANG than it is to today...
...1941 - 1976 - 2016
TBM-Legend
10th Apr 2016, 02:04
...but I find it strange how people go all moist over paint jobs on aircraft.
Please go back to your vanilla milk shake!
Hipper
14th Apr 2016, 16:59
It wasn't done by this fellow was it?
Essex 'Van' Gogh makes art on mucky vans to 'make drivers smile' - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-35945970)
Haraka
15th Apr 2016, 15:31
Out of interest ,can anybody tell me how, for RAF Aircraft, celebratory colour schemes are selected and funded?
Also the very approximate cost for, say, a Hawk.
Could be the last?
15th Apr 2016, 20:23
I thought there was supposed to be a 1* board that sat to authorise an ac's paint scheme? However, last I heard was that the final nod went to a Wg Cdr at Air, and if he liked it you cracked on! Costs, lost in the noise (if only).
Courtney Mil
16th Apr 2016, 10:25
Cost is unit responsibility and it seems to depend who's in the headquarters. If approval is given too far down the food chain there is always the risk of an irate AOC who doesn't like it and demands it is all taken off. There may well be an official way of approving them, but I can't recall ever seeing it in action. With hubs and spokes these days I would have thought the force commander would probably give it the nod and accept any flak later when it's too late.
Haraka
16th Apr 2016, 16:10
Thank you for your responses Guys,
I have no idea how a "cost" using service personnel and resources on a respray works. Obviously other factors, such as how long you intend the scheme to stay on before reversion to standard and whether this could be integrated into a normal respray cycle have to be considered by the bean counters. then there is the possibility of external sponsorship by a manufacturer for spun off advertising of the aircraft.
But for something Hawk/Tucano sized, are we talking budgetarily 5k, 10k, 20k, 50k sterling? Or is it not worth the formal effort of a costed proposal.?
Buster Hyman
18th Apr 2016, 02:58
That's pretty good on the F-15, but for me, this is the Ducks Nuts!
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f7/3a/e4/f73ae4f27419ef26e4c079a20b332555.jpg
Wensleydale
19th Apr 2016, 07:50
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12998580_10153502610515069_908320817621920486_n.jpg?oh=cdb13 955ae8802927d5e6538dfc15c65&oe=577E2E34
Autobahnstormer
19th Apr 2016, 09:19
I was always under the impression that celebratory paintschemes were frowned upon due to cost. When I asked the Dutch AH-64 Apache Display Team crew what it cost to paint their Apache, they replied that it was a vinyl finish applied by a local company that could be removed in the space of hours, should operational requirements require the airframe. It cost €5K which seemed remarkable value to me.
ABS
sitigeltfel
19th Apr 2016, 10:03
it was a vinyl finish applied by a local company that could be removed in the space of hours
Having had the task of removing the vinyl wrap finish from something as small as a Mini Countryman, I would dispute that! :*
Martin the Martian
23rd Apr 2016, 09:30
Get your sunglasses out for this one. Shiny!
https://www.facebook.com/31TigerFans/photos/a.198028863905937.1073741828.197948967247260/220608531647970/?type=3&theater
Willard Whyte
23rd Apr 2016, 13:46
Get your sunglasses out for this one. Shiny!
https://www.facebook.com/31TigerFans...type=3&theater
The designer must have taken delivery of a massive shipment of drugs from across the border with Netherlands. It worked too, stunning.
Wensleydale: Well, she wore some half decent tail art when she came in. Local rumour has it that Air Livery forgot to order the paint, hence the departure in primer.. Of course, this may be complete bolleaux.
Regards,
Frank