National insignia...lack of.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Stendec, remember who had the most anti-aircraft guns and fighters. Rounders were quite low key compared with the invasion stripes.
The D-Day invasion stripes were a very temporary affair in which the requirements for deconfliction and avoidance of fratricide overcame the requirement for camouflage. The all-over invasion stripes gave way after 6 weeks to only being on the lower-surfaces, thus emphasising the need for concealment from above and deconfliction from below. The stripes were hastily applied with brooms or anything available and generally wore off over time. The roundels may have been large (no larger than on other ac) but the white had largely gone on the type C1 roundels.
The blue/blue SEAC roundels are proof that the white was too much of an attraction when the red centre was simply over-painted, so the toned-down blue replaced it; a precursor to the faded roundel introduced in the late 70s.
If you want to see aircraft with no markings at all, look at the Rhodesian Air Force from 1972 onwards.
The blue/blue SEAC roundels are proof that the white was too much of an attraction when the red centre was simply over-painted, so the toned-down blue replaced it; a precursor to the faded roundel introduced in the late 70s.
If you want to see aircraft with no markings at all, look at the Rhodesian Air Force from 1972 onwards.
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British military aircraft had no national markings whatsoever in the beginning, until they got fed up with every British soldier and ship they overflew having a pop at them at the start of WWI. After it was found that large Union Flags on the wings and fuselage didn't work either (the ground army claimed that the red cross of St George looked to much like the Maltese Cross on the German Aircraft, that the French Roundel was copied (but in reverse)). The 'Invasion Stripes' were not really a new design either, a number of Typhoon and Mustang units had white stripes painted on the aircraft through 42 and 43 (in some cases almost to the same extent as what was slapped on almost everything in the first week of June 44). The reason was to stop them being engaged by Spitfire pilots who seem to think that any single engined fighter that wasn't a Spitfire must be an enemy one.
British military aircraft had no national markings whatsoever in the beginning, until they got fed up with every British soldier and ship they overflew having a pop at them at the start of WWI. After it was found that large Union Flags on the wings and fuselage didn't work either (the ground army claimed that the red cross of St George looked to much like the Maltese Cross on the German Aircraft, that the French Roundel was copied (but in reverse)). The 'Invasion Stripes' were not really a new design either, a number of Typhoon and Mustang units had white stripes painted on the aircraft through 42 and 43 (in some cases almost to the same extent as what was slapped on almost everything in the first week of June 44). The reason was to stop them being engaged by Spitfire pilots who seem to think that any single engined fighter that wasn't a Spitfire must be an enemy one.
And RAF aircraft over France in 1940 had white and black undersurfaces. It only goes to show that sometimes you need to be seen and sometimes you don't - black training ac, versus grey combat aircraft. Plus ça change!
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Wait till DAVE gets here.....
all those lovely 617 Sqn badges in
Errrrm Grey!
Oh hang on, the US Navy painted a CAG F-35C I hear everyone cry.....!
Bet we don't do that, now that we appear to have bought the next 4 airframes, assuming we have enough to make a squadron by 2018
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all those lovely 617 Sqn badges in
Errrrm Grey!
Oh hang on, the US Navy painted a CAG F-35C I hear everyone cry.....!
Bet we don't do that, now that we appear to have bought the next 4 airframes, assuming we have enough to make a squadron by 2018
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