Camouflaged Aircraft and related topics

[MPH]

I don't really get the idea of coamoflauged planes. Are there trees up in the sky to blend in with?

Adversary squadrons do it, because that's how the communists paint them up. These are from VFC-13 circa '94.

A desert scheme over a black and white background, and the black/gray scheme on a brown background. Apparently I just don't get how camouflage works.

 

[phrogdriver]

Some of camouflage is about breaking up recogizable outlines, not blending with the environment, hence the aggressive zigzags in old communist patterns.

 

[MPH]

Some of camouflage is about breaking up recogizable outlines, not blending with the environment, hence the aggressive zigzags in old communist patterns.

It was said with tongue in cheek. Sorry for the lack of smilies.

 

[p1brule]

Digi

314 took the camo to a new level with this one.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/middle/8/0/2/1337208.jpg

 

[FlyinSpy]

Speaking of paint jobs, I saw a desert-camo Prowler taxiing up here (NUW) a couple weeks ago... any ideas whose it was? I'm assuming one of the expeditionary squadrons...

VAQ-133 had one in Bagram that has been back up that way for a couple of months.

Sorry to interrupt the flow of cool helo pics....

 

[FlyinSpy]

Here's a pic....

 

[Mumbles]

I saw that digi-cam Marine whore-nutt at K-bay last year.

 

[whitesoxnation]

i know everyones seen it before

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/301-400/walk385_CH-53/images/53eldy1.jpg

 

[CWJones411]

I know I'm supposed to be seeing something here but I can't make it out...

 

[Uncle Fester]

Relax your eyes...it's a schooner...

 

[SH-60OB]

Before




After

http://www.katize.com/2007/09/06/how-to-hide-an-airplane-factory/

 

[Pags]

Relax your eyes...it's a schooner...

No, it's a sailboat!

 

[phrogpilot73]

No, it's a sailboat!

A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head.

 

[Scoob]

A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head.

Brenda?!?

 

[HeyJoe]

[/threadjack] before Swanee shows up to give sailing lessons.....

Back to regularly scheduled discussion on camouflage

Recent shots of USAF F-16s in "Artic Flanker" markings en route to Alaska from homebase in Korea for a swap of aircraft

FLYING IN FORMATION
F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft with Artic Flanker paint schemes fly in formation in preparation to be refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker during a flight from Kunsan Air Base, Korea, to Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Jan. 20, 2008. The bases are swapping seven F-16s as part of the Common Configuration Implementation Program. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Eric T. Sheler

Meanwhile, different paint scheme being applied back at homeplate

DoD photos