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NA Vigilante........


Jack

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Okay, here’s a Viggie question that has bugged me for a very long time:  Does anyone on here know definitively - and I mean without question; no opinions or “I think”s - what color NAA used for the word NAVY on the sides of the earliest batch of RA-5Cs?  I know for certain it wasn’t black and any of the various shades of gray you see on decal sheets these days are bogus because gray was not a thing back then.  I remember it being a pale green color that reflected light and it was stickers or tape, not paint.  I’ve seen it used on helmets and flight deck gear as well.  Really screws up a flash photo.  Whatever color it was, the jets came from the factory that way although it wasn’t long before it was replaced by regular old black lettering.  I have the same Viggie books as everybody else but have yet to see a reference to it in any of them other than the occasional call-out of it being light gray.  It’s possible (even probable) that my memory by now is a bit tango uniform on this, but I’ve carried the same vivid image in my head for decades and it ain’t gray.

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North American's Vigilante ......so great........... it can fire nukes out of it's butt.....

..................and occasionally disgraced itself by leaving it's "payload" on the deck .

 

Pretty aircraft though , would be an impressively large model at our scale ....700mm long ? 

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4 minutes ago, Panzerwomble said:

North American's Vigilante ......so great........... it can fire nukes out of it's butt.....

..................and occasionally disgraced itself by leaving it's "payload" on the deck .

 

Pretty aircraft though , would be an impressively large model at our scale ....700mm long ? 

 722 mm even. Yes, bigger than my Viggen in 1:24 ...

 

Cheers

Rainer

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