You know something, I have paint chips from the aircraft sprayed in the field for aircraft marked with YK on the tail. I was on a jolly to the beach and they were parked behind it spraying them. Having established that a shark net could keep sharks in as well as out and my natural cowardice showing through I took a walk along the flightline. I have a few phots of aircraft serial numbers 162494, 162482 (with the bat sprayed on the port side) and 162007.

I was told that all green aircraft went all pink and on green/grey aircraft the grey areas went pink and that the colours were an on the spot mix of, as Sgt Robert Perez ,Cpl Dustin Hawkins and l/Cpl Craig Hodle (my written notes are a bit fuzzy on the spellings!) of "1 litre of white to 3 "blops" of tan" and were of a cheep water based emulsion bought from a local (State side?) hardware shop and were called Butterfinger for the darker and Burnt Meringue for the lighter.

I was a Royal Engineer serving with 3 Sqn RE off the Aramco Track south of As Sadawi. Is that anything to do with you lot?

Cheers

Rory.