The legend of the Jolly Rogers Skull and Crossbones...

[Boris Badenov]

The removal of the great big in your face "NAVY" (or "MARINES") is, imho, the worst part of the Tacticoolization. Such a shame.

 

[Get-home-itis]

Back in the dark ages when I was a Navy Pilot we had the only official squadron insignia that featured the female form. The inspiration for the 'Batgirl' was some B-movie pin-up girl from the '40s whose name escapes me now.

....And then the 'Tailhook' incident occured and we were deemed offensive and ended up with this generic looking thing:

 

[Pilot Fighter]

VMAQ-2 Playboys met a similar fate.

 

[USMCmech]

VF-84 was the inspiration for our teams Flugtag glider

 

[Pilot Fighter]

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VF-84 was the inspiration for our teams Flugtag glider

Awesome.

 

[chrisreedrules]

VMAQ-2 Playboys met a similar fate.

Love that liverie on the old RF-4Bs...

And to me the iconic VF-84 aircraft is the F-4B... Black radome, and black flag on the v. Stab.

 

[bunk22]

The best pain job ever. I saw this jet fly at an airshow at NAS Pt Mugu, in 1986 or 1987 as I recall. The Blues could not fly due to low hanging clouds, the audience was not happy so the playboy Phantom was launched and it did one hell of a high speed pass. Broke the sound barrier in front of the crowd. Just awesome.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

The best pain job ever. I saw this jet fly at an airshow at NAS Pt Mugu, in 1986 or 1987 as I recall. The Blues could not fly due to low hanging clouds, the audience was not happy so the playboy Phantom was launched and it did one hell of a high speed pass. Broke the sound barrier in front of the crowd. Just awesome.

Yeah, that's your winner. I guess they were disestablished before they could yank their bunny like they did to VMAQ-2.

 

[The Fez]

The best pain job ever. I saw this jet fly at an airshow at NAS Pt Mugu, in 1986 or 1987 as I recall. The Blues could not fly due to low hanging clouds, the audience was not happy so the playboy Phantom was launched and it did one hell of a high speed pass. Broke the sound barrier in front of the crowd. Just awesome.

Not sure if it's the same exact airframe, but there's an F-4 in the Boneyard at DMA with this livery. I drive by it all the time. Cool bird.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Don't forget their F-4Ns

F-4J, as pictured.

 

[H46Bubba]

Updated version…

There is an exemption which allows for one aircraft per squadron to be painted "hi-vis" and has to be approved by Wing and AIRLANT/AIRPAC

 

[H46Bubba]

Here's my fav.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Here's my fav.

Here's my favorite.

 

[DubyaDawg]

This was always one of my favorite F-14 liveries, I love any jet with a shark's mouth on it!

And just due to the uniqueness... I think this guy deserves a shoutout;

 

[H46Bubba]

This was always one of my favorite F-14 liveries, I love any jet with a shark's mouth on it!

Sundowners have been a favorite of mine since I first saw them when we moved to Miramar back in 1990.

 

[chrisreedrules]

Here's my fav.

I like the VF-31 F-14 with the same "theme"... Felix carrying the bomb wearing the Santa hat.