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article X-15 North American nasa The X-15 was one of the most exotic and successful of the entire X airplanes. The X-15 aircraft can trace its origins back to the 24th of June 1952. NACA…
article F4u-1A Corsair ‘Jolly Rogers’ Early VF-17 US NAVY The Jolly Rogers were initiated during World War II as US Navy Fighter Squadron 17 (VF-17) on January 1, 1943 under the command of LCDR Tom…
article Atlantic Anti-Submarine Camouflage Schemes (ASW) (1943–1945) It became clear during 1943 that the standard US Navy three-tone camouflage scheme—developed for operations in the Pacific—was not effective under the grey, overcast conditions of the Atlantic.…
article P-47D Thunderbolt “Naughty Nadine” – John S. Lolos and the Thunderbolt That Flew Over the Pacific Some models start with a photo. Others with a historical event. But there are also those that start…
article US Air Force/Air National Guard 1968-1980 U.S. Air Force/Air National Guard. From 1968 onwards, it was a special command of the USAF charged with the defense of continental U.S. airspace, and existed between 1946…
article Tactical Air Command Camouflage 1947-1964 The Tactical Air Command was formed on 21 March 1946, a year before the USAF was established, and encompassed fighters, fighter-bombers, ground attackers, and other non-combat aircraft that could…
article Photo-Reconnaissance Camouflage In the period 1942-1945, the USAAF was approached by a Boston paint manufacturer known as Samuel Cabot with a proposal for a new white Haze paint that allegedly rendered aircraft close to…
article Tactical Paint Camouflage.US Navy 1980 Concerns over the detectability of the LGG/IW scheme resulted in the development of so-called Tactical Paint Schemes from 1976, a process that took various years with final evaluations taking…
article Aegean Ghost Camouflage Inspired by the camouflage of the USN F-16N Aggressors, Ghost Gray or “Aegean Ghost” developed in the late 1980s, is the variant worn by all Greek F-16 Vipers, F-4E AUP Phantom…
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