RAF Typhoon Display Team - New livery for 2024

[VM325]

Just revealed. Known as 'Moggy'...


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[PEI_3721]

Invasion stripes; where, when ?

[BEagle]

80th anniversary of D-day......

A pity about the radome though - I guess it cannot be painted?

[langleybaston]

April 1st again?

[Ohrly]

80th anniversary of D-day......

A pity about the radome though - I guess it cannot be painted?

If I remember correctly it is made from a composite that is that colour from the factory and can't be painted over. I may be wrong though.

[GeeRam]

80th anniversary of D-day......


Yep.
Replicates the markings of a 257 Sqn Hawker Typhoon flown by PO Denzil Jenkins during operations over Normandy in 1944.

[Easy Street]

Replicates the markings of a 257 Sqn Hawker Typhoon flown by PO Denzil Jenkins during operations over Normandy in 1944.

Denzil Jenkins - tracesofwar.com (https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/62319/Jenkins-Denzil-Plummer.htm)

Flight sergeant to squadron commander in less than one year: "meteoric" even by wartime standards. It even says so in his DFC recommendation!

[dead_pan]

Didn't they do something similar a few years back?

Also, what happened to Blackjack?

[VM325]

Didn't they do something similar a few years back?

Also, what happened to Blackjack?

Still flying, being used as the backup aircraft this year.

[charliegolf]

Denzil Jenkins. A Jock, I assume?:}

CG

[Mogwi]

Just revealed. Known as 'Moggy'...

I resemble that!

Mog

[MAINJAFAD]

Denzil Jenkins - tracesofwar.com (https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/62319/Jenkins-Denzil-Plummer.htm)

Flight sergeant to squadron commander in less than one year: "meteoric" even by wartime standards. It even says so in his DFC recommendation!

Not surprising, I was reading the Air Historical Branch's campaign narrative of the North West European campaign in 1943/45. (A lot of their stuff has been scanned and is on the RAF Web Site). 2 TAF were losing a squadron's worth of pilots every 10 days from D-Day onwards just from German light Flak.

[Finningley Boy]

My father was a Servicing Commando on 609 West Riding Squadron, One of I believe 17 Typhoon Squadrons were operated by the RAF and assigned to 2 TAF at the time. I believe there were three Canadian and two New Zealand squadrons.

FB

[beardy]

I wonder if it's a good idea to camouflage an aircraft that is supposed to be visible during its display?

[MPN11]

The cam would be effectively invisible beyond 500 m, although the D-Day stripes might show up further away. Small cam patterns don't achieve much ... Mog?

[Video Mixdown]

The cam would be effectively invisible beyond 500 m, although the D-Day stripes might show up further away. Small cam patterns don't achieve much ... Mog?
In its day camouflage was intended as a disruptive pattern when viewed from above against a brown/green natural background. Can't see many airshow spectators having that problem.

[Bob Viking]

People complain when the RAF don’t do special paint schemes and then they complain when they do. It seems they can’t win.

I think it looks great.

BV

[beardy]

People complain when the RAF don’t do special paint schemes and then they complain when they do. It seems they can’t win.

I think it looks great.

BV
Sorry if it came over like that. I wasn't complaining at all, just pointing out the irony.

[Mogwi]

In my experience (a long time ago!) most aircraft further away than a mile or so, are simply a silhouette. The best example of close-in camouflage being valuable that I came across was RCAF F18s that had dummy cockpits painted underneath. That could give a very confusing picture.

mog

[CAEBr]

Sorry if it came over like that. I wasn't complaining at all, just pointing out the irony.
Irony ? Don't you realise that the entire Typhoon fleet is already camouflaged, just not with a WW2 brown/green scheme or such. Camouflage refers to whatever colour scheme is best assessed as suitable for the platform as intended to be used. It's not even just aircraft, consider the disruptive schemes applied to many ships.

[beardy]

Irony ? Don't you realise that the entire Typhoon fleet is already camouflaged, just not with a WW2 brown/green scheme or such. Camouflage refers to whatever colour scheme is best assessed as suitable for the platform as intended to be used. It's not even just aircraft, consider the disruptive schemes applied to many ships.
Having flown camouflaged fighter/interceptors in support of the Royal Navy of course I know that.

The irony is a dedicated display aircraft (ie to be seen) that is camouflaged (ie to be hidden).

[622]

...perhaps it just means when the A/C goes tech / or want to attend 25 displays in one day .....they can claim it flew and put on a great display! :E

[Wycombe]

RCAF F18s that had dummy cockpits painted underneath

Pretty much all Classic F-18s (not sure about the Super Hornet) have that if I am not mistaken.

[Diff Tail Shim]

The Moggy nickname? What has that got to do with this design? Please enlighten me.

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The Moggy nickname? What has that got to do with this design? Please enlighten me.
FMOG?

[Diff Tail Shim]

FMOG?
Lots of thought in it then. FMG does have some more interesting acronyms, without the roundel.

The 2007 Jaguar OSD scheme had a way better nickname from the 6 Sqn Groundcrew. Bet Lynch.

[NutLoose]

I like it, a full scheme for the 80th, it really looks good too. It is nice to see the RAF being proud in its identity and heritage again and projecting that, instead of the poverty stricken half hearted anniversary scheme they did previously. They should be proud of what they have achieved, past , present and future.

Incidentally, didn’t they do an Hawk in a similar style scheme years ago but had to repaint it after the season as it was difficult to see low level.

[Diff Tail Shim]

I like it, a full scheme for the 80th, it really looks good too. It is nice to see the RAF being proud in its identity and heritage again and projecting that, instead of the poverty stricken half hearted anniversary scheme they did previously. They should be proud of what they have achieved, past , present and future.

Incidentally, didn’t they do an Hawk in a similar style scheme years ago but had to repaint it after the season as it was difficult to see low level.
The paint is in service stock. Ceremonial schemes bar national display aircraft do have a shelf life dictated to their use. That is black and white in Kings Regulations. Would have been signed off by CAS and the Camo Working Group for approval. I do like it as well. .

[Video Mixdown]

I like it, a full scheme for the 80th, it really looks good too. It is nice to see the RAF being proud in its identity and heritage again and projecting that, instead of the poverty stricken half hearted anniversary scheme they did previously. They should be proud of what they have achieved, past , present and future.
What’s important is that the commentator will have an interesting historical, military, aviation and human story to tell during the always impressive Typhoon display - one that spectators of all ages will remember when linked back to the family friendly ‘Moggy’ nickname. A good job all round.

[SLXOwft]

Incidentally, didn’t they do an Hawk in a similar style scheme years ago but had to repaint it after the season as it was difficult to see low level.

19 had one painted in a green and brown scheme with a yellow 19 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of it introducing the Spitfire to squadron service.

[Percy Cute]

Are the other eight in the "team" painted the same?

[Stuck On The Ground]

Given that it's a Tr1 jet I wonder if it will end up in a museum in this scheme later this year?

[Bob Viking]

19 had one painted in a green and brown scheme with a yellow 19 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of it introducing the Spitfire to squadron service.

I took that jet to an air show in Cognac to show it off. It did look great.

BV

[Davef68]

There have been Typhoons in early WW2 green/earth and partial Desert Earth/Mid-stone schemes before. I think this is the first green/grey one

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[Easy Street]

There have been Typhoons in early WW2 green/earth and partial Desert Earth/Mid-stone schemes before. I think this is the first green/grey one


Where are they? I can't see them... the green and brown one is particularly invisible ;)

[teeonefixer]

I took that jet to an air show in Cognac to show it off. It did look great.

BV
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XX184 roll out in the 19 Sqn colour scheme (my photo)

[SLXOwft]

Grey/Green Camo with light grey nose, nothing new there but I suspect a less technical reason for 19's then sister squadron.


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[57mm]

The clean FGR2, the most fun you have with your clothes on.

[NutLoose]

Or
100,000 loose rivets in close formation.

[VM325]

Now flying...


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[Easy Street]

Absolutely bloody brilliant. Really looks the part - and all the better for some sunshine (at last)!

[Bob Viking]

Great pictures. And that just looks bloody cool.

BV

[Easy Street]

First outing for a rolling display practice: very much not invisible...

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