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History: In 1987 Squadron 729 decided to tread on the steps of making another decorated Draken after Dynamite 6-1 went so well that none of the officers were reprimanded for painting the aircraft without permission. This time it was planned to tape the design to the aircraft as it was to simply wear this guise for some photos for a Christmas card rather than become a fully painted aircraft.
The image above actually ended with the photographer getting in trouble as he was not wearing the proper flight equipment as he couldn’t if he wanted to take that photo we see below in the image section(Photo taken in a twin seater TF-35 piloted by Julemanden himself). The aircraft was taped up and had a few alternatives designs planned but given the crew decided to use tape they came to an agreement to leave the nose undecorated as they were worried some of the tape could come loose and enter the engine intakes on the front.
I suggested this camo for the Danish F-35 Draken we have in game as it has some of the most unique camos for any Drakens in my opinion and figured having more variety for Camos would allow for some better representation of my homes display of Drakens that we operated.
Additionally the photo actually shows the pilot who would later be seen flying AR-109 for the Christmas Card photo.
Sources: AR-109 | eskadrille729.dk / esk729.dk / rdaf-729sqn.dk
(I would love to add more sources but info on Squadron 729’s Christmas camo is largely hidden online with very few mentions in written books that i own.)
Sources:
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(Also side note but im begging please dont immediately close this im struggling to find more info and these are the only images of this camo, i have images of AR-109 from before and after this camo was applied but as the vehicle was decorated without permission it didn’t get properly recorded but i have plenty of other festive things done by the squadron that did this from other years. Please lol im begging you to not close this, mange tak)
