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xmid said:
Looks like a lego hornet...
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Looks like a pain in the ass to paint & keep clean! We never painted our jets to look like our uniforms in the 80's & 90's; a blue denim and light blue camo with bell bottoms wouldn't look very cool the more I think about it...
 
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An SH-3 Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 14 pictured in flight over the carrier Ranger (CV 61), battleship Missouri (BB 63) and escorting ships underway in the Pacific in 1987.
 
I believe you can spot the USS Long Beach CGN-9 in the background too. She has a pretty distinctive superstructure/mast.
 
SynixMan said:
I believe you can spot the USS Long Beach CGN-9 in the background too. She has a pretty distinctive superstructure/mast.
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I was in Enterprise ("Mobile Cherynoble") during her 89' - 90' World Cruise. When we wet around the horn of Africa we were in the roughest seas during the entire cruise. Anyway, Long Beach was our escort and the rest of the battle group returned to the west coast. As we would pitch down in the swells, LB would pitch up. All we could see from the hangar bay was LB's structure, it had to be the same size as Enterprise's.
 
It seems like there are better ways to celebrate the history of naval aviation than painting a plane with a hideous smurf camo scheme that has only been around for a few years anyway. You know, maybe some kind of historical paint job...
 
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Treetop Flyer said:
It seems like there are better ways to celebrate the history of naval aviation than painting a plane with a hideous smurf camo scheme that has only been around for a few years anyway. You know, maybe some kind of historical paint job...
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+1! Concur with Treetop, looks like a "Flyin' Ad" for LegoLand! See thumbnail for a real Hornet paint job!:hot_anima
BzB, Blue Diamond Forever:pirate_12
 

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The T-45s look good (make that they look great), but I wonder why the colored bands were left off the aft fuselages? The best reason I can think of is there isn't enough room between the wing trailing edges and the tail feathers. Practically all the naval airplanes in the 1930s that had colored chevrons on the wings had a matching color engine cowling (on the nose obviously) and a matching color 20" wide band on the aft fuselage. (And there were a few difference paint schemes for the empennage.)

Anyway, I'm thrilled to see the commemorative paint schemes, history come alive, and all that... living, breathing, and screaming loud- woohoo! :)
 
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