Hell Kitty News.......?

because they use gloss paint instead of mat, they also keep them in tip top "airshow shiny" condition :wavey:
 
Look, I worked on them and the dark blue airplanes were gloss painted. Some of the cowls in front of the windshields were painted flat black.
Carrier planes were kept clean and touched up where ever wear was spotted, because of corrosive properties of salt water.
The Marine planes were land based and were not too well supported.
As for the RNAF, what can I say. The British sailors were famous for their less than fastitious ways.
Any ship that was moored next to a British ship put out double rat guards.
 
You might like to rephrase that Helldiver... Something along the lines of "The Fleet Air Arm crews were constantly underfunded and underequipped".

The British Government love trying to run armed forces on a shoestring or slightly lower than that budget and boy does it show. :banghead:

Ian P.
 
IanP said:
You might like to rephrase that Helldiver... Something along the lines of "The Fleet Air Arm crews were constantly underfunded and underequipped".

The British Government love trying to run armed forces on a shoestring or slightly lower than that budget and boy does it show. :banghead:

Ian P.
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Sounds like the Marine Corps. But we still shined and scrubbed every little thing the Navy would throuw our way! Every piece of equipment is/was used untilt it was unserviceable. This is a "shot" at the British Navy but a comment on the slim pickings the Navy hands us!:d:costumes:
 
The next person to say Air Force or use the contraction AF when referring to the Fleet Air Arm is going to seriously piss me off! It's FAA or RN, we're nothing to do with the Crabs, and we're still underfunded and under equipped, although it turns out you really don't need to keep an aircraft shiny to be serviceable.....
 
I should have been more clear. The Marines had one plane captain for every four airplanes. He was responsible for every bit of maintenance for each one. In the Navy there was one plane captain for each airplane. Ocassionally he would have two. That is what I meant by lack of support.
During the war the British was given all they needed. The destroyer that tied up next to us in Panama was American in origin. It was a shambles with debris and rust everwhere. We were told it was a British tradition. They thought us taking a shower every day was overkill.
 
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