FAA in Korea question

[Captain Canada]

Yes that does sound good !

I think any Korean War era FAA bird needs stripes...there's a 'coolness' factor involved eh ?!

[Weaver]

I revive this because I found the answer in literature: it should be "no". The FAA aircraft only carried those stripes because just piston-engine types were used by the RN (and lots of similar stuff from North Korea was in the air, too), and American AA crews were not really familiar with the types.
In order to avoid friendly fire the D-Day markings were adopted, but officially only to/for the non-jet types - consequently anything that started from a RN carrier.

So, if there had been jet types of American origin in FAA markings, it should not have carried the stripes. Wonder what had happened if a Sea Hawk had been deployed there? And an FAA F4U should not have carried them. Theoretically. 

But my FAA Panther will carry them, anyway, beceause they look cool! 

That was the reason why my FAA Panther didn't carry stripes: sillouette-wise, it could only be a "friendly". It didn't come in "delivery" dark blue with overpainted markings because in my background, it was made in the UK under licence by Gloster, so it was never blue in the first place.

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[Dizzyfugu]

Yep, yours should be a "correct whif".