RAFG Lightning Colours?

[lindslow]

Does anyone know definitively what colour green was used on the Lightning F.2A's of 19 and 92 Sqns? Seems it wasn't standard RAF Dark Green.

[Exrigger]

According to this site it is BS 638 641

Lightning F2a Colour Scheme - Cold War - Britmodeller.com (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/75934-lightning-f2a-colour-scheme/)

[MACH2NUMBER]

When the Red Arrows came to Gutersloh in 1975 for the air show, the 19 Sqn Lightning display team were known as the Green Marrows

[langleybaston]

whatever the colour, it made a lot of noise in Zeppelinstrasse whan there was a mass scramble.

[Arfur Dent]

4 Squadron display team know as the "Green Worms" ( ref the sleeping bags used on deployments in the Harrier Force).

[Just This Once...]

Pretty much the colour of trees:

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[Pontius Navigator]

JTO, I see they have their own idiots in Germany too. Wonder if anyone ever had a spotter in the undercart?

[Davef68]

I have seen it quoted as Nato Green (same as the Harrier GR5s were painted) but all the documentation says Dark Green 641 (241 in current standard)

[pr00ne]

Or an idiot in a green jet in the canal?

[Krystal n chips]

They were painted in a very, well, fetching shade of green really, which had a few additional uses at times, notably the leaks blending in to the colour scheme along with helping to negate the sight of the many, and varied, missing fasteners at various locations on the airframe.

[MACH2NUMBER]

pr00ne,
As you know the Gutersoh fence is just behind the 'idiots', as is the threshold. Lightnings needed every inch of the runway, piano keys, and sometimes less. Looks a pretty normal approach to me.

[langleybaston]

On the plus side, they didn't use a lot of runway for take-off.

Very very hard on tyres, I understand.