With all of this talk of Day-glo over on the Sea Prince thread, it might be fun to start one up for general dayglo pictures. (Now I need to find all of those close up pictures of the Golden Apple T33’s drop tanks)
All aircraft types welcome, as well as the full spectrum of Dayglo from freshly applied bold orange to lovely faded in the sun yellowish white (the aviation equivalent of ‘distressed faded-look jeans).
PS Does anybody have any pics of Royal Navy Tiger Moths in the later silver dope/Dayglo sticker colour scheme. I have a picture of XL714 in Stuart McKay’s Tiger Moth book, which also has a nice black and white image of similar Moth from above on a carrier lift?
By: Chox - 4th March 2009 at 01:39
Re- Binbrook, it transpires that dayglow also appeared on one other Lightning around 1967 – 5 squadron’s T5 had dayglow trainer bands applied for a while.
As for the lovely Hunter shot above, I’d guess it was Valley as it is a 4FTS machine.
By: Atcham Tower - 3rd March 2009 at 22:19
The only one I can find at the moment and a bit blurred on a very wet day. Believed at Exeter circa 1965 but I might be wrong on that as I can’t find my notes. Could be Valley!
By: mike currill - 3rd March 2009 at 21:54
Will someone please confirm that I am not going totally gaga? I seem to recall that the German Navy had dayglo on some of their Breguet Atlantics.
By: atc pal - 3rd March 2009 at 20:33
Nothing to do with dayglo:
The Chinook at Odense did indeed lift two Land Rovers – but lost one after a couple of minutes! 😮
By: atc pal - 3rd March 2009 at 20:30
Here are some more ancient Danish dayglo “birds”:
http://www.spotters.dk/portal/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2296&FORUM_ID=26&CAT_ID=7&Forum_Title=Milit%E6r&Topic_Title=Dengang+i+R%2ED%2EA%2EF%2E%2B+EKOD&whichpage=1&tmp=1#pid12819
By: Chox - 16th December 2008 at 16:06
Horrified to see that I completely missed this thread – and now half the photographs have gone!
Come on chaps, bring ’em back please!
Incidentally Tim (and as I told your dad yesterday) I’ve just received an old slide of a 5 Sqn Lightning T5 wearing dayglow trainer bands. Always assumed that the dayglow bands were only applied to a few OCU T5’s but it seems not!
By: atc pal - 7th November 2006 at 20:48
Catalina and Navy Alouette III’s in the background. (photo ?)http://flyvemuseum-vl.dk/ push “Catalina” in the left column.
By: mike currill - 5th November 2006 at 06:05
You’re quite correct Mike. XS709-711 were finished in this scheme prior to the red/white/grey scheme being devised. Does anyone know if XS712 also appeared in these colours? This one was taken at Hatfield in February 1965.
Ah, it’s good to know then grey matter still works – when it wants to 🙂
By: Arthur - 4th November 2006 at 23:15
They used to use day-glo on the Lightnings once or possibly twice at Binbrook, by that i mean when they put a soviet red star on one during an exercise in the early 80s.
Do you mean the one at Laarbruch? They had a vismodded Lightning decoy made to look like a MiG-21, but there wasn’t any dayglo on it.
(and bump! More dayglo! A QF-104, anyone? Not to mention some splinter-with-dayglo goodies from Sweden…)
By: Binbrook 01 - 26th October 2006 at 15:18
They used to use day-glo on the Lightnings once or possibly twice at Binbrook, by that i mean when they put a soviet red star on one during an exercise in the early 80s.
Think Dad may have a pic? but not me.
Tim
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 13:40
St Mawgan I reckon looking at the rise then tree tops in the background?
Bingo! 😀
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 13:30
St Mawgan I reckon looking at the rise then tree tops in the background?
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 13:28
Culdrose?
Not that far, but right County.
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 13:25
Culdrose?
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 13:04
Not Northolt or Hurn. Go West young man!
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 10:33
Hurn?
By: David Burke - 26th October 2006 at 09:44
Northolt
By: scotavia - 26th October 2006 at 08:50
This Dayglo thread has fascinated me ,I was an air cadet and recall on one of many visits to fly Chipmunks at Woodvale asking for some of the sticky back Fire Orange dayglo. It was made by 3M and I carefully applied small strips of it to my Airfix Chipmunk. It looked pretty good and was better than my hand painting attempts.!
Keep up posting the old pics,helps me fill gaps in my collection of what I used to see when I only had a wee Brownie 127 camera !
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 07:49
I seem to remember that some of the early Dominies had the sticky strip dayglo on nose and rear fuselage, maybe other places too. Am I correct or is the grey stuff breaking down again?
You’re quite correct Mike. XS709-711 were finished in this scheme prior to the red/white/grey scheme being devised. Does anyone know if XS712 also appeared in these colours? This one was taken at Hatfield in February 1965.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 07:43
Prestwick
Sorry, wrong end of UK, try southern half of England
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