The RAF Typhoon Display Team have revealed a newly painted display aircraft for the 2024 Display Season at RAF Coningsby.
The aircraft paint scheme includes features that commemorate D-Day, with 2024 being the 80th Anniversary of the allies invading Europe.
According to a news release, the aircraft is painted in a 1944 era ‘Day Fighter’ scheme that remembers a Hawker Typhoon of 257 Squadron, FM-G. On D-Day this aircraft was flown by Pilot Officer Denzel Jenkins.
“Jenkins began the war as an airman and was commissioned as an officer in Jan 1944. Later, he became Officer Commanding (OC) 257 and was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross. Bold features, including the RAF Tactical Recognition Flash and the D-Day invasion features, bring heaps of heritage to the display team this year. The display aircraft ZJ913 will be a regular at airshows around the UK, and will be nicknamed Moggy.”
Flight Lieutenant Turnbull from 29 Squadron RAF will be the display pilot for 2024, you can read more on this here.
I love this
Looks pretty good, I’d rather see the traditional roundels restored
I don’t think it looks good.
We’ve looked at the data and found you are wrong
Do you have a reference for this 😂🤣😂
It is aesthetics, the D-Day zebra band are too large, not proportionate.
When it comes to custom paint jobs it really is each to their own…although I bet there is now some sort of AI algorithm for paint jobs that will please the most people.
Stripes for twin-engine aircraft are to be 24in wide, so if anything, they look too narrow, like they used the 18in single-engine pattern (which is more befitting a fighter).
The spitfire is a lot smaller?
I don’t think so SB. The Typhoon is compact.
Typhoon – from RAF website
“ Length: 52ft 4¼in (15.96m) Height: 17ft 4¼in (5.29m) Wingspan: 36ft 4½in (11.09m)”
Spitfire – from Wiki
11m wingspan but 10m long – varies with version.
2/3 of the length is significant……
Same wingspan, a bit stumpier😉
Typhoon have thick fuselage compared to a Spitfire. So the wings are shorter.
Alex-go to your room.
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Hello Daniele my friend! I hope you are well and that the daffodils are blooming in the sunny south east😆 All my Airfix models had the PROPER insignia. In today’s world with advances in Radar and stand-off weapons, the small difference in visibility probably does not make that much difference.
Cheers from Durban (turning 75 in a few weeks time!!)
geoff my friend! Not spoken in a while? Daffs all finished, as have the Grape Hyacinth, now on the Forget- Me-Not stage in the garden. Sunny? If only, cold and grey last few weeks.
She’s a cracker in that scheme isn’t she.
You’re always and remain the “father” of the site for me. Hope you are having a decent bash for the 75th?
😊Thank you Daniele for kind words. 3/4 of a Century😬 going to see an old geezer of 82 this afternoon who was also born in Queen Charlotte’s!!
My room, nooo! still has a disassembled Matchbox 1/72 Lightning somewhere…
Teenager feed up with paint i disassembled it then adulthood arrived and did not touched it again…
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Excellent, made me LOL. That’s a proper RAF paint job. Invasion stripes been out of fashion way too long.
F35B from 617sqn is also doing a proper 10min demo at various airshows across the UK this summer. 👌
Flipping heck. From the RCH 155 looking like a dogs dinner to this beauty.
Blackjack is now the back up display Typhoon 👍
Just paint all of them like that. They’re supposed to fight from BVR anyway.
That paint job would put the fear of God in Ivan as he looks over his shoulder in a dogfight, though, wouldn’t it?
It probably has a higher radar return than the standard paint or something silly like that.
Lots or research done in WWII for camo. This looks superb. Do the lot.
Nice, another option the Cold War silver of the lightning’s
Now that would be good 👍
Silver planes go faster…
But have larger RCS because if it reflects light, it also reflects radar.
That’s why there aren’t any nice silver aircraft (though with black upper sides) any more.
So this is how there would of looked if we had them in the 80s , never really a fan of the grey 🤔
Still very effective to this day. I remember squadrons of Hunters, and then some Lightnings in similar. Looked best on a big beefy Victor though.
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Less painting and more fighters 150 IS a ridiculous strenght.
will the underside have Camo pattern aswell also will it have D Day markings underneath aswell , just curios to know .
Wow! The Boxheads will be thrilled to see this!
May I be a little fussy?
“ commemorate D-Day, with 2024 being the 80th Anniversary of the allies invading Europe.”
The allies liberated Europe with the support, in most cases, of the displaced governments in exile, as a result of the Nazi invasion(s).
Writing that we ‘invaded’ somehow makes us sound like the aggressors…..?
Anyway it is a nice paint scheme….
Well we invaded France which was a collaborator nation that for some reason is counted as one of the allies…
I don’t think they were collaborators Levi-apart from a very small percentage. Did you see them singing La Marsellaise in Casablanca?
All collaborators huh? Better tell le 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos, or the French Fleet at Tulon. I guess when Leclerc’s 2e Division Blindée marched into Paris they where simply relieving the Wehrmacht garrison right? Guess the American Sixth Army Group was in a really precarious position with 12 French Divisions constantly on their right flank?
Off Topic but there was an article in the Mail saying something along the lines regarding more Typhoons? Could they be thinking of refurbishing the 29 Tranche 1 aircraft that they are taking out of service .
That seems to be Mark Francois floating an opinion.
It wasn’t that long ago that I heard there was a Typhoon Display Team. How many aircraft in the team? Have they ever performed in the south of England?
Not a team like the Reds mate. AFAIK there has only been a single AC doing the business and a back up.
Lovely to see those beautiful traditional RAF roundels again. The low camo ones are awful and the blue and red only ones break a basic design rule-don’t place two dark colours together!
Looks like the paint job doesn’t extend right the way over the nose. Is that something to do with the onboard radar?
I’ve never really thunk about it before, but what does the yellow signify on the roundels?
I think its a triffic paint job.
According to one website “[t]here were variations of the Royal Air Force roundel during the War. A fourth colour, yellow, was added to the outside of the blue circle to make the roundel more visible against the newly introduced camouflage schemes.”
Wonderful irony-make the roundel MORE visible against the camouflage😂