At last a savior for the Royal Navy

[Tchocky]

That was the normal colour scheme for that time I believe.

Nice to know there was a time when at least one of the armed services was totally fabulous

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

OMG MY EYES!!

I think that is what they were going for. Imagine if you were in a Messerschmidt or a Zero and you saw that coming at you. You would be paralyzed in horror...

[August]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

That was the normal colour scheme for that time I believe.

Actually it is jazzed up a little.

This is the "standard issue" scheme.

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by August

Actually it is jazzed up a little.

It varied from squadron to squadron most times, in some cases I think some units did have paintschemes that righteous. And then some had more boring green or brown variations.

Edit: Here is (according to wikipedia) a replica painted up as the CO's bird of the 19th PS. And here is P-26A c/n 1911 33-135, marked up for the 34th attack squadron

[nikimcbee]

so it wasn't jebus then?

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

Wow, good looking and the first one in

But I'm kinda biased... my dad flew Orions so I got to see them a lot. On a side note, a while back we (he and I) went to a Coast Guard auxiliary meeting and met a guy who used to fly P-2s:

The Navy found an additional use for the Neptunes during the Vietnam war.


http://airwarvietnam.com/vo67.htm


Quite an interesting history of this squadron. Official(?) page:

http://www.vo-67.org/vo67_opening.html



EDIT

Hang on, I got VO-67 mixed up with the one I was thinking of... it's VAH-21 that I wanted to post about.

http://www.vah21.com/

*sigh*

More fun reading material at least.


FURTHER EDIT:

Historical note - VO-67 supported Khe Sanh during the siege in early 1968 by dropping sensors into the jungle around the base. Those sensors helped pinpoint enemy movements, and subsequent strikes could be sent in to tear things up.

VAH-21 was a Navy experiment. They patrolled the Ho Chi Mihn Trail at night with a mixture of snakes and napalm (and miniguns). From what I've read they didn't lose a single crew, despite the defenses they flew into.