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Originally Posted by juan angel 747
that sounds to me like the air force that protects the santa claus factory (and also another model)
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B/G Fred Haeffner's 58th TFTW sported some of the most colorful markings of the post-Vietnam era; 584 was his jet. One final shot of 584, now as "The Adidis", with its D-Day Invasion Stripes applied. Done nominally for air-to-air identification during dog-fight training, it really just looked cool.
As a group, these aircraft were known as "The Candy Cane Air Force" on the 58th's 1976 Christmas Card.
From the caption of
this striped F-4C on Airliners.net (others had red or yellow stripes).
As far as colourful Eagles go, there was also
this one with "Sabre stripes", still from the 555th. Incidentally, that was the first F-15 that left the factory wearing the Compass Ghost grey scheme.