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Geilenkirchen October 18-29
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:36 pm
by Trout89
During a.m. period of two weeks the Illinois ANG provided AR for the local E-3's.
First to arrive was 64-14839 as Reach 593, which is seen vacating at the end of runway 27
Aircraft number two arrived with 1 day delay, but I got her on departure on Friday
After the weekend number three arrived on a freezing cold morning
Later that week a NATO C-17 arrived to pick up some cargo for Afghanistan
Regards, Arjen.
Re: Geilenkirchen October 18-29
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:52 pm
by Ben Montgomery
Some extremely nice angles there - especially liking the C-17A!
On a different note - I hope this isn't a sign that the USAF KC-135 is being standardized in terms of painting - it seems that 64-14839 has lost it's eyeliner since June:
It's already been seen that the 100thARW are doing it - I hope this isn't going to be fleet wide!
Re: Geilenkirchen October 18-29
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:11 pm
by POL
Ben Montgomery wrote:On a different note - I hope this isn't a sign that the USAF KC-135 is being standardized in terms of painting - it seems that 64-14839 has lost it's eyeliner since June:
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It's already been seen that the 100thARW are doing it - I hope this isn't going to be fleet wide!
It would make sense - Saves on black paint for no real (operational) purpose.
Re: Geilenkirchen October 18-29
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:12 pm
by Ben Montgomery
ChrisGlobe wrote:Ben Montgomery wrote:On a different note - I hope this isn't a sign that the USAF KC-135 is being standardized in terms of painting - it seems that 64-14839 has lost it's eyeliner since June:
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It's already been seen that the 100thARW are doing it - I hope this isn't going to be fleet wide!
It would make sense - Saves on black paint for no real (operational) purpose.
That is what I understood the reason was - but going by that logic, why not remove all noseart (which the 100th have retained) to save paint too?
Re: Geilenkirchen October 18-29
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:25 pm
by POL
That's unit-level, they decide what they want to put on the based aircraft. Probably more apparent on ANG units as they may have members who work in the transfers industry, so they do it. Physical paint on the aircraft is done at USAF AMC level, so they units have no choice.
That's how I understand it to be, anyway
