OV-10 Questions

There wasn't much of an air threat in Vietnam, especially where most USMC OV-10s operated. What was a problem was the attack aircraft keeping track of a little green airplane just above the tree tops. So many O-1s, O-2s, OV-1s and OV-10s (ands ceratinly others) had the top of the wing and/or fuselage painted white or orange to be seem from above. The USAn tried dark camouflage and rejected it. Marine Field Green: FS 34097.

"Curt" wrote in news:dpyNh.55696$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe22.lga:

Yep. I went through my David Klaus book on color. He says 34085. Either way will work. Makes sense on the whote wings. Were the bottoms whote or some form of grey? Klaus says 36440, but only from 1970 forward.

Frank

"Curt" wrote in news:dpyNh.55696$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe22.lga:

Yep. I went through my David Klaus book on color. He says 34095. Either way will work. Makes sense on the whote wings. Were the bottoms whote or some form of grey? Klaus says 36440, but only from 1970 forward.

Frank

snipped-for-privacy@yahooo.com (Gray Ghost) wrote in news:Xns98FEA2805AC1EWereofftoseethewizrd@216.196.97.131:

Oops, meant 34095

The white upper wing was to aid visibility for tactical aircraft flying above the OV-10.

Sorry for the redundancy. After posting this and reading down a couple posts farther, I saw that your question had already been answered.

"Bill Woodier" wrote in news:b6ednQmQQt2- LpTbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Thanks!

Frank

There was one FAC, I believe it to have been an OV-10, that had the legend THE FAC in huge white letters on the top of the wing.

Don H.

That was a Cessna 0-2. Pretty cool.

HTH,

Andre