Saturday, July 4, 2020

Spirit of '76

Seeing as today is July 4th, and TWW is brought to you from the good 'ole US of A, today's installment has a patriotic twist to it.

Back in 1976, many a USAF squadron (as well as USN and USMC) celebrated the USA's Bicentennial by decking out at least one of their birds in a special paint scheme. Some outfits were fortunate enough to have an aircraft whose serial number included a '76', and incorporated this into the design of their paint jobs.

F-106A 58-0760 of the 159th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Florida Air National Guard was one such aircraft, and carried what your blogmeister thinks was the most breathtaking Bicentennial paint job of them all...


Original image source: F-106DeltaDart.com


Original image source: F-106DeltaDart.com
Don Spering photo (G.H.L. Scharringa collection)
 


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