Another vintage oddity
Brewster F2A-1 fighter of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) At Naval Air Station, North Island, California, 9 September 1940.
The plane is painted in McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design Number 2. Note gun-camera mounted on the starboard side of the fuselage, forward. Grumman F2F-1 fighters of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2) are in the background.
Variant (camouflage design Number 1)
Similar schemes were tested on other Navy aircraft like the TBD Devastator
the SB2U Vindicator
or the Northrop BT-1
https://camoupedia.blogspot.com/2011/04/camouflage-artist-mcclelland-barclay.html
H.P.
Awesome vintage photos! Thanks for posting!
I’m a tread head but lately this thread has been my favorite!
Happy to have started this thread… ![]()
USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator ‘assembly ships’
B-24D, named ‘Minerva’, of the 68th Bomb Squadron, 44th Bomb Group :
H.P.
Thanks for that!!!
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JASDF F-4EJ Kai Phantom II with new camouflage for the 100th anniversary of the Gifu Airbase in 2017
Fujimi 1/72nd scale kit decal sheet
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Mirage 2000D 70th anniversary of the Escadron de Chasse 3/3 Ardennes in 2013
The only top view I’ve found… ![]()
H.P.
A blue and white F-16 from the 114th Fighter Wing, painted at the Air National Guard Paint Facility in Sioux City, Iowa was painted for the South Dakota Air Guard in commemoration of their 75th anniversary. The paint scheme was conceptualized to emulate the WWII era Grumman F-4F Wildcat flown by South Dakota native and Medal of Honor recipient Joe Foss who was instrumental in founding the South Dakota Air National Guard (2021)
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