50 yrs AFB Manching: 3 Jets Tornado/Phantom

[-sam-]

The good old Phantom in "eyecancer" orange




Tornados doing a "buddy to buddy" maneuver

[Vapour01]

Always been a fan of how colourful the Germas often paint their aircraft. Shame the RAF are so paranoid about having any colour whatsoever on their aircraft (the last pair of VC10 'specials' are evidence of that). 8-)

[Craig.]

Always been a fan of how colourful the Germas often paint their aircraft. Shame the RAF are so paranoid about having any colour whatsoever on their aircraft (the last pair of VC10 'specials' are evidence of that). 8-)

To be fair though, with the RAF being rather busy both in the middle east and now especially over the north sea, the last thing thats going to gain you some respect is turning up in a pink aircraft. And lets face it, if the PC brigade had their way, which undoubtedly they would demand in the case of a tigerscheme, it really would be pink. You could just see these Russians rolling around the floor of their bombers as a pink tornado turns up telling them to turn round.

Great shots mate.

[Isak922]

Always been a fan of how colourful the Germas often paint their aircraft. Shame the RAF are so paranoid about having any colour whatsoever on their aircraft (the last pair of VC10 'specials' are evidence of that). 8-)

To be fair though, with the RAF being rather busy both in the middle east and now especially over the north sea, the last thing thats going to gain you some respect is turning up in a pink aircraft. And lets face it, if the PC brigade had their way, which undoubtedly they would demand in the case of a tigerscheme, it really would be pink. You could just see these Russians rolling around the floor of their bombers as a pink tornado turns up telling them to turn round.

Great shots mate.

LOL at the last bit.

Quite a funny image that put in my mind

[expat]

Always been a fan of how colourful the Germas often paint their aircraft. Shame the RAF are so paranoid about having any colour whatsoever on their aircraft (the last pair of VC10 'specials' are evidence of that). 8-)

To be fair though, with the RAF being rather busy both in the middle east and now especially over the north sea, the last thing thats going to gain you some respect is turning up in a pink aircraft. And lets face it, if the PC brigade had their way, which undoubtedly they would demand in the case of a tigerscheme, it really would be pink. You could just see these Russians rolling around the floor of their bombers as a pink tornado turns up telling them to turn round.

Great shots mate.

There is a very rare picture floating about of a pink Harrier T4 in a professional finish. The RAF had a detachment to as I recall Italy or Spain. The long and the short of it was, the RAF "Zapped" aircraft of the Squadron they visited (Zapping was leaving your sqn's mark on that of a visiting aircraft or aircraft that you had visited, also stealing removing something on a permanent loan basis to hang on your crew room wall). Well the visited sqn did not want to be out done removed the aircraft at night from the flight line when the "RAF" where in the pub and completely repainted a Harrier T4 in pink. The powers at the top laughed and then send the guys our to wash what ever it was off, thinking that it would be water soluble, but it was in fact pink paint. The aircraft was flown back to Wittering and hangered right away, but a couple of pictures where got. As I recall, they have appeared once in Flight International, and once only. The RAF where not amused............No sense of humour some people.

Nice shots, but someone really has to tell the Luftwaffe that orange does not work on aircraft.

Matt

[Vapour01]

I wasn't advocating rainbow aircraft or brash all-over schemes, but at least let crews have a few nose-art/kill markings/squadron related markings,  at the moment RAF jets (GR4 fleet being the prime example) just look like blank pieces of a huge car pool with no character. Even the jets coming back from active service are generally told to remove any kill markings or nose-art.