billtate wrote:
While I was looking for the H-53 I remembered the Fleet Air Arm carried "stripes" on some of their aircraft during the Korean War (1951-53) and the Suez Crisis in 1956. Here are a few examples:
The Suez stripes were yellow and black and were not just RN but all the allied nations attacking Egypt; they were a classic multi-national recognition marking. That was their point, just as the D Day stripes were a multi-national recognition marking.
Your examples above are all Korea era stripes - whch were also used by the RAN's aircraft as well as the RN.
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And the Fleet Air Arm’s Historical Flight tries to keep up the tradition.
It's the Royal Navy Historic Flight (RNHF) - see my earlier post on their Swordfish. Sadly both the aircraft you've shown have since been lost, the Firefly tragically in a fatal accident. The Korea-era stripes were essentially accurate for these machines in that era. (And, incidentally, have nothing to do with the D Day stripes I showed on the Swordfish earlier.)
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I have no idea why this Royal Air Force Wessex has "stripes" unless it is because it's onboard a U.S. Navy CVA.
Certainly nothing to do with cross decking, I think - but it's not my field - that they are exercise markings - like 'Blue Army' vs 'Red Army'.
Can we go back to D Day stripes now?
Regards,