RAF Typhoon Display Team - New livery for 2024

[VM325]

Just revealed. Known as 'Moggy'...

[Bob Viking]

Boo, hiss.

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

[Bob Viking]

Boo, hiss.

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

[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]

Originally Posted by BEagle

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]

Originally Posted by BEagle

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]

Originally Posted by GeeRam

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

Denzil Jenkins - tracesofwar.com

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]

Originally Posted by dead_pan

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]

Originally Posted by Easy Street

Denzil Jenkins - tracesofwar.com

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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]

Boo, hiss.

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by beardy

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.