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article F-35A Lightning II Aggressor – The 65th Attack Squadron at Nellis Air Force BaseImportOn June 9, 2022, an F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 65th Strike Fighter Squadron began its first training mission with a distinctive new paint …

article F4u-1A Corsair ‘Jolly Rogers’ Early VF-17 US NAVYThe 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 Blackburn. …

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. The …

article P-47 THUNDERBOLT PILOT USAAF340th & 341st Fighter Squadron / 348th Fighter GroupAircraft HistoryBuilt by Republic. Delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) as P-47D Thunderbolt serial number unknown. Disassembled and shipped overseas to …

article US Air Force/Air National Guard 1968-1980U.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 and …

article Tactical Air Command Camouflage 1947-1964The 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 be …

article Photo-Reconnaissance CamouflageIn 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 invisible …

article Tactical Paint Camouflage.US Navy 1980Concerns 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 place …

article Aegean Ghost  CamouflageInspired 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 IIsand …

article Heater-Ferris U.S. NAVY  Camouflage  In 1983-84 another experimental camouflage based on the Ferris scheme was developed by Lt. Cmdr. Chuck ‘Heater’ Heatley of the Naval Fighter Weapons School. The new scheme (popularly called Heater-Ferris) called …