RAFG Lightning Colours?
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RAFG Lightning Colours?
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.
whatever the colour, it made a lot of noise in Zeppelinstrasse whan there was a mass scramble.
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JTO, I see they have their own idiots in Germany too. Wonder if anyone ever had a spotter in the undercart?
Or an idiot in a green jet in the canal?
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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.
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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.
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.
On the plus side, they didn't use a lot of runway for take-off.
Very very hard on tyres, I understand.
Very very hard on tyres, I understand.
