File:RA-5C with lost canopy CV-64 1966.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy North Americam RA-5C Vigilante (BuNo 149313) of heavy reconnaissance squadron RVAH-6 Fleurs after an emergency landing on th aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the waters off Vietnam, in 1966. The aircraft lost the aft canopy on a catapult shot. The pilot was CDR Art Skelly and the RAN was LTJG Joe Shevlin. The RA-5C 149313 had been built as an A-5B and was converted into an RA-5C. It was retired to the MASDC as 4A0011 on 26 January 1971.
Note that the aircraft wears a green camouflage paint. The U.S. Navy experimented with aircraft camouflage and painted half of the aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15) with dark green colours to blend in with the Vietnamese jungle. The results proved inconclusive for the U.S. Navy, whereas the U.S. Air Force concluded that the camouflage was effective. U.S. Navy planes would not be camouflaged until the 1980s.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.6421 [1]
Author U.S. Navy

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