Now that's how you do a special colour scheme!
 

ORANG's recently rolled out, 75th anniversary F-15C, looking stunning!

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-RP

Wow, didn't realise the F15 had been around that long!

Time flies when you're having fun!

Nice !


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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?

<hides in bunker>

Or just looks good.

It isn't just a paint job. Beautifully done with the wing- and tail-feathers not to mention the head. Lot of work gone into that for a superb result.

Purely practical, of course.

Reduces bird strikes.

Should be made compulsory.......

That's a very large saucer of warm water to apply all those 'transfers' ;)

For our American cousins 'transfers' = 'decals'

Tourist

It hasn't - it's the Oregon Air National Guard (ORANG) who are celebrating their 75th Anniversary.

^Thanks for clearing that up.

Yeah, I think he gets that... :rolleyes:

-RP

Still, imagine what a few Eagles could have done in 1941..


Shades of 'Final Countdown'

Still, Eagle's entry in to service was closer to the formation of ORANG than it is to today...

...1941 - 1976 - 2016

Please go back to your vanilla milk shake!

It wasn't done by this fellow was it?


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.

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.?