I remember from my younger days the US Bicentennial paint jobs on military aircraft. They were nice and I’d like to see it done for the Semiquincentennial (that’s 250th).
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CNATRA Bids Farewell to Orange and White Paint Scheme
When in the past 15 years has that ever been a thing?
My crew flew a fully painted CAG jet over Afghanistan.
Interesting. I was a VT OPSO when direction came from higher to submit a color scheme yesterday for morale building.
I must have missed that part.
What did you submit?
Several designs, including our CONA paint scheme which bears a striking resemblance to the winning design submitted by 28. Picture below.
My understanding was that there would be a “CAG” design and maybe a smattering of other non orange and white schemes. The one thing I begged my leadership to pass up was to not do away with the high vis scheme.
My understanding was that there would be a “CAG” design and maybe a smattering of other non orange and white schemes. The one thing I begged my leadership to pass up was to not do away with the high vis scheme.
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Paint them like Guy Harvey sport fish.
But seriously, why are we not applying sponsorship logos to raise money for ‘hook, NHA, single-room lodging, $50k/year bonuses, etc. We already know up aircraft are brought to you by Bang energy drink and Zyn; might as well get paid for it.
But seriously, why are we not applying sponsorship logos to raise money for ‘hook, NHA, single-room lodging, $50k/year bonuses, etc. We already know up aircraft are brought to you by Bang energy drink and Zyn; might as well get paid for it.
Yeah, I've seen them, but every time I went from Pax to DC, I was sure the policy was no flight suits outside particular areas (flight lines, watch floors, etc.)
The new policy of guacs off base is a relaxation of the previous khakis+ off base.
Was absolutely a thing while I was going on deployment as the squadron MO, in 2019.
I forget who made the royal decree. As I recall, it was COCOM or someone high up aggressively interpreting some COCOM instruction. Either way, we were told from on high that all our jets had to be grey for deployment. Everyone was pissed, because we had an awesome looking CAG bird.
We painted that bird even better after deployment. But it was grey for cruise, because of some higher ranking fun sponge.
In the old T-39 days, I may or may not have shacked one of my TOTs at VT-86 on a poorly-defined South Carolina radar target in a phase where you "weren't supposed to navigate visually on that leg."
Motherfucker, in combat, one peek is worth a thousand scans, and I didn't get caught.
The flight suit policy is a long standing one. Effectively no change since I served in the NCR 10 years ago.
This is the "how to make your NFO throw up" cheat code.
On deployment now. Can't speak for @sevenhelmet's experience, but we do still have painted CAG birds (although we're not doing "combat flights").
That being said, the glory days of paint jobs like in our JO tour are gone in VAQ. CVWP has significantly clamped down on how much paint we can put on our 500s. Partially to be more in compliance with the NAMP, partially because a few years ago another VAQ squadron damaged a vertical stab trying to grind off all the paint they had put on the tail, and partially because a couple of squadrons started painting over things that weren't supposed to be painted.