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USAF F-5 Aggressors Part 1


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A few F-5Es from the 64th Fighter Weapons Squadron.

 

s/n 71-1635, June 1981. I think this was supposed to be the "Frog" scheme, but that brown just doesn't look right.

71-1635 64fws 635 KLSV 19810600 11cr

 

72-1388, April 1981.

72-1388 64fws KLSV 19810400 30cr

 

73-0882, February 1981. Snake scheme. Note the 2 in the bort number looks like an inverted 5.

73-0882 64fws 82 KLSV 19810200 08cr

 

73-0847, May 1981. Pumpkin scheme.

73-0847 64fws 847 KLSV 19810500 31cr

73-0847 64fws 847 KLSV 19810500 26cr

 

73-0847 again, June 1981. Pumpkin scheme, but looks like someone found a different shade of tan/brown.

73-0847 64fws 847 KLSV 19810600 26cr

 

73-0865, June 1981. Don't know what scheme this was supposed to be. Many of us in the operational test squadron thought it was a mistake and referred to it as The Lemon.

73-0865 64fws 865 KLSV 19810600 12cr

 

73-1635 February 1981. Southeast Asia scheme.

73-1635 64fws 635 KLSV 19810200 11cr

 

73-1636 April 1981. Southeast Asia scheme.

73-1636 64fws 636 KLSV 19810400 32cr

 

74-1508, April 1981. Old Ghost scheme.

74-1508 64fws 08 KLSV 19810400 33cr

 

74-1510, October 1980. New Ghost 2 scheme?

74-1510 64fws 10 KLSV 19810500 35cr74-1510 64fws 10 KLSV 19801100 18cr74-1510 64fws 10 KLSV 19810400 29cr

 

74-1510 64fws 10 KLSV 19810400 28cr74-1510 64fws 10 KLSV 19801100 27cr

 

Thanks for looking,

Sven

Edited by Old Viper Tester
correcting auto-correct
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6 hours ago, andyf117 said:

.interesting that 635 appears to be missing the red parts of the star 'n bar...

We had a few jets on the Nellis line that looked like the star and bar went pre-1947. The sun bleached away the red. We had two F-4Es in the 414th Fighter Weapons Squadron with bleached insignia on the left and insignia that looked new on the right.

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7 hours ago, Boman said:

would you happen to have photos from ~1988ish too?

Working on them. Hence the "Part 1" for this post. I have the rest of the 64th and about a dozen from the 65th.

 

3 hours ago, junglierating said:

Loving the lemon....anymore

We are out of Lemon... and Pumpkin, though I think there is a Pumpkin in the 65th.

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22 hours ago, Red Dot said:

funny how the last grey schemes make the hump behind the cockpit look more pronounced.

Hmmm... Hadn't noticed that before, but yeah, it looks almost like one of the MiG-29 designers got into it.

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Just now, Old Viper Tester said:

Hmmm... Hadn't noticed that before, but yeah, it looks almost like one of the MiG-29 designers got into it.

that's exactly what i thought too.

 

Andy

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