Camouflage and Markings

Artiklar för märkning och camouflage

Camouflage & Markings by Tomasz Gronczewski   This article shows two results of my colour research for my Fokker Dr. I projects. The featured machines constitute two fine examples of the Dr. I paint schemes. As I am particular interested in the personalities of the fighter aces, I have chosen […]

Fokker Dr. I Aces

text by Magnus Fridsell artwork by Danny Coremans, Daco Products   As an addendum to this month’s ”In Detail” feature about RF-84F from Brussels , here is a short review of Belgian Thunderflash paint schemes. Belgian Air Force was an important overseas user of Republic jet aircraft. From the early […]

Republic RF-84F Thunderflash in Belgian Service

Artwork by Anton Alm Text by Magnus Fridsell and Martin Waligorski     The FFVS J 22 was a fighter aircraft developed in Sweden as a stop-gap measure during World War II. Very little known internationally, it was an important episode in the development of the Swedish aircraft industry and as such has been […]

The FFVS J 22 in Profile

by Tomasz Gronczewski  Iron dog? It is really hard to find a more controversial fighter aircraft of the World War II period than Bell P-39 Airacobra. It was loved by ones, hated by others and gained radically different opinions from pilots flying it. To some extent, the Bell fighter may […]

Bell P-39 Airacobra in USAAF Service

Aircraft and Colours of the Rhodesian Air Force Photos by Phillip Evans Text by Martin Waligorski   Throughout its history, the Rhodesian Air Force has been serving under many names and markings. The South Rhodesian Air Force was first established in September 1939 as a transition of a humble Southern […]

Aircraft and Colours of the Rhodesian Air Force

artwork by Tor Karlsson text by Martin Waligorski   First announced in September 1973, the Bell 206L Long Ranger was developed to meet a requirement for a turbine-powered general-purpose helicopter in a size and performance range between the five-seat Jet Ranger II and 15-seat Model 205A-1. The original Model 206L […]

Bell 206L Long Ranger in Swedish Police Service

by Tomasz Gronczewski   Ernest ”Feeb” Fiebelkorn was one of the biggest aces of the 8th Air Force. Writing ”biggest” I mean tallest and heaviest. 6ft 4in combined with 225 pounds must have made a placement into Mustang’s cockpit a bit problematic. Nevertheless it did not prevent Feeb from becoming the top-scoring pilot of […]

Ernest Fiebelkorn – The Buster of Walter Nowotny

Photos by Phillip Evans Text by Martin Waligorski The South African Air Force, the second oldest air force in the world, has a long and complicated history, not least during the modern era. During the Cold War period, the SAAF found itself engaged in the Berlin Airlift, Korean war and finally […]

Aircraft and Colours of the South African Air Force

by Martin Waligorski Photos courtesy of US Navy, Library of Congress, US Air Force   This is the third and last part in the reference series about interior finishes of US-produced aircraft of the World War II era. Please refer to part one for general information on the development and […]

Interior Colours of US Aircraft, 1941-45, Part III

by Martin Waligorski Photos courtesy of US Navy, Library of Congress, US Air Force   This is the second part of the three-part feature covering the finishes and colours used for the interiors of American-produced aircraft of the World War II era. Please refer to part one for general information […]

Interior Colours of US Aircraft, 1941-45, Part II

by Martin Waligorski Photos courtesy of US Navy, Library of Congress, US Air Force This is the first part of the three-part feature covering the finishes and colours used for the interiors of American-produced aircraft of the World War II era. This part gives general information on the development and […]

Interior Colours of US Aircraft, 1941-45, Part I

by Tomasz Gronczewski  This month Tomasz Gronczewski provides an in-depth colour analysis of two applications of the RLM 74/75/76 camouflage on early Focke-Wulf Fw 190s – one from the Channel front, another from the Tunisian campaign (Ed.) Fw 190A-4 Flown by Siegfried Schnell Both Siegfried Schnell and his Fw 190A-4 […]

Early Focke-Wulf Fw 190s

by Doru Sicoe artwork by Bogdan Patrascu The artwork and photographs contained in this article were first published in the book ”Romanian Aeronautics in the Second World War 1941-1945” by Cristian Craciunoiu and Jean-Louis Roba, Modelism, 2004. Used here by kind permission of the publisher (Ed.)   Photo courtesy of […]

Fighters of the Romanian Air Force

artwork by Rick Kent text by Martin Waligorski One of the lesser known episodes in the operational history of the Spitfire is its use as a night fighter. During the winter 1941/1942 it was feared that the night Blitz of the year before might be repeated in 1942. During 1941, the Hurricane […]

Night-fighting Spitfires

Camouflage & Markings Part 3: Appendices by Bouko de Groot This the third and final part of our series covering finishes and colours used throughout the history of Dutch military aviation. Please refer to Colours of the Dutch Air Force – Part 1: Aircraft of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) – […]

Colours of the Dutch Air Force ( Part 3 )