Colorado, United States
Joined: December 18, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 09:45 AM UTC
FLYBOYS;
I'm building a F-86F and was wondering when they were in use over Korea what kind of camo. paint job did they use if any?
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Massachusetts, United States
Joined: May 05, 2002
KitMaker: 8,074 posts
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Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 09:58 AM UTC
USAF aircraft in Korea were natural metal with a yellow strip with black cheat lines around the fuselage aft of the wing and the same marking about 2/3 of the wau outbouard on the wings, top nad bottom. Navy and Marine aircraft were dark sea blue.
I believe the F-86 line was out of service in front line units by the time the AF went to camo colors.
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Missouri, United States
Joined: April 13, 2002
KitMaker: 195 posts
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Posted: Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 06:43 AM UTC
I'll second AJ's remark - no camo on F-86's while they served in Korea (I don't think any of the Air Force birds wore camo in Korea). There were several other countries that had camo'd Sabres later in it's life though.
-Paul
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