"Kirk Stant" wrote in message
om...
Finally, about the paint - When the primary threat was the WP, all AF
tactical aircraft with an air-to-ground role had a dark green paint
scheme - the European 1, I think it was called - nice dark wraparound
that finally got rid of the idiotic white bellies (and the givaway
belly flash) that worked great in Europe but sucked big time at
Nellis! Then when the F-16 came into the inventory, the fashion
changed to grays, and even the F-4 got a nice gray cammo. A-10s just
took longer, I guess.
Kirk

Guess you never saw an F-102, F-106 or even an F-101. The name of the paint
was even Air Defense Gray. Nothing new with the advent of the F-16.

Tex