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Korea: F-80 question

Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:00 pm

Color question regarding Korean War F-80 aircraft: were the nose and tip tank antiglare panels black or olive drab?
Thx in advance,
VL

Re: Korea: F-80 question

Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:49 pm

Vlado, I believe most Korean War P-80s carried the drops below the wingtip and were punched off pretty regularly. T-33's tip tanks were usually black.

Re: Korea: F-80 question

Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:24 pm

The factory stock tip tanks were only 165 U.S.G. and couldn't provide enough range for early operating conditions to Korea from Misawa Japan so local (in Japan) outfits developed the 265 U.S.G. 'Misawa' tip tanks which were between the stock tank and the TBird tanks in length.
And like Rick says they were under the tip and pretty much out of direct line of sight from the cockpit so reflections weren't as much of an issue as the mid point mounted TBIRD tanks were.

Re: Korea: F-80 question

Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:41 pm

That's right. Good reminder. The under tip tanks would not have had the anti glare paint.

For the fuselage nose, would the Korean F-80s had black or olivevdrab paint? Or none, for that matter.
Thx again,
VL

Re: Korea: F-80 question

Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:25 am

vlado wrote:That's right. Good reminder. The under tip tanks would not have had the anti glare paint.

For the fuselage nose, would the Korean F-80s had black or olivevdrab paint? Or none, for that matter.
Thx again,
VL

Wasn't that the fairing for the gunsight computer antenna? so it would probably be flat black painted fiberglass. The gunsight antenna fairing on the F-86 was a smallish fiberglass beak on top of the intake lip usually black or tanish.

Re: Korea: F-80 question

Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:26 pm

I have seen them painted both colors.

Re: Korea: F-80 question

Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:53 am

vlado wrote:Color question regarding Korean War F-80 aircraft: were the nose and tip tank antiglare panels black or olive drab?
Thx in advance,
VL


Shouldn't the question be, "What color is the interior of the main gear doors"?

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