Originally Posted by
Norma Stitz
Hemp was good for large aircraft parked on concrete aprons at ISK, Marham, St. Mawgan, Brize, etc...but only for the naked eye. Trouble is ISK also had a hangar painted brightly in the 80s so you could see for it miles, giving the game away should you have wished to fly your BACKFIRE 'feet dry' instead of fire some ungentlemanly stand-off weapon.
Camouflage of aircraft in UK and painting HAS green was always a load of b*locks. Everything paints green and hangars and HAS make wonderful radar reflectors.
At warp 6 a Backfire will be steady on its bomb run well before aircraft on the ground can be seen even in daylight. If we imagined that Backfires would attempt low level attacks in UK by daylight then we were dreaming. Tacevals should have been run at night not in broad daylight.