Now that's how you do a special colour scheme!
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No disrespect, folks, but I find it strange how people go all moist over paint jobs on aircraft.
Does that make them better, or faster, or more operationally capable?
Or is it just a slightly expensive ego trip?
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Does that make them better, or faster, or more operationally capable?
Or is it just a slightly expensive ego trip?
<hides in bunker>
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It hasn't - it's the Oregon Air National Guard (ORANG) who are celebrating their 75th Anniversary.
Wow, didn't realise the F15 had been around that long!
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It wasn't done by this fellow was it?
Essex 'Van' Gogh makes art on mucky vans to 'make drivers smile' - BBC News
Essex 'Van' Gogh makes art on mucky vans to 'make drivers smile' - BBC News
Out of interest ,can anybody tell me how, for RAF Aircraft, celebratory colour schemes are selected and funded?
Also the very approximate cost for, say, a Hawk.
Also the very approximate cost for, say, a Hawk.
I thought there was supposed to be a 1* board that sat to authorise an ac's paint scheme? However, last I heard was that the final nod went to a Wg Cdr at Air, and if he liked it you cracked on! Costs, lost in the noise (if only).
Cost is unit responsibility and it seems to depend who's in the headquarters. If approval is given too far down the food chain there is always the risk of an irate AOC who doesn't like it and demands it is all taken off. There may well be an official way of approving them, but I can't recall ever seeing it in action. With hubs and spokes these days I would have thought the force commander would probably give it the nod and accept any flak later when it's too late.
Thank you for your responses Guys,
I have no idea how a "cost" using service personnel and resources on a respray works. Obviously other factors, such as how long you intend the scheme to stay on before reversion to standard and whether this could be integrated into a normal respray cycle have to be considered by the bean counters. then there is the possibility of external sponsorship by a manufacturer for spun off advertising of the aircraft.
But for something Hawk/Tucano sized, are we talking budgetarily 5k, 10k, 20k, 50k sterling? Or is it not worth the formal effort of a costed proposal.?
I have no idea how a "cost" using service personnel and resources on a respray works. Obviously other factors, such as how long you intend the scheme to stay on before reversion to standard and whether this could be integrated into a normal respray cycle have to be considered by the bean counters. then there is the possibility of external sponsorship by a manufacturer for spun off advertising of the aircraft.
But for something Hawk/Tucano sized, are we talking budgetarily 5k, 10k, 20k, 50k sterling? Or is it not worth the formal effort of a costed proposal.?
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