[Newsbot]

Title: Stephen Harper's official jet gets eye-catching makeover
Category: Political
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2013-06-07 11:08:09
Canadian

[DanSC]

It looks great. Fantastic, actually. Well done RCAF.

Though it is funny to hear opposition MPs decry the use of the colour blue. Nevermind that blue's a colour from the RCAF roundel.

[saturn_656]

Red white and blue are the colours of the RCAF roundel. They're complaining either out of ignorance or they simply like to hear themselves make noise.

[DanSC]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Red white and blue are the colours of the RCAF roundel.

Is that also part of Harper's Secret Agenda?

[stratos]

It looks good, if any complaint it should be that the leaf is to small. Should be a bit bigger IMO but over all it looks fine.

[saturn_656]

DanSC DanSC:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Red white and blue are the colours of the RCAF roundel.

Is that also part of Harper's Secret Agenda?

He must be pretty awesome if it is, considering the roundel was red white and blue before Harper was born.

[DanSC]

That's just how deep the conspiracy goes

[Robair]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Red white and blue are the colours of the RCAF roundel. They're complaining either out of ignorance or they simply like to hear themselves make noise.

There's that, but there's also this:

$1:

In 2011, CBC reported that the prime minister and defence minister were involved in a "tug-of-war" about changing the jet's colour from it's traditional military grey. The defence department argued that anything but grey would be too visible "whenever the passenger jet is sent on troop and cargo missions to risky locales."
But alas, the PMO gets what it wants.

Link.

Ego over practicality/safety I guess.

[saturn_656]

Robair Robair:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Red white and blue are the colours of the RCAF roundel. They're complaining either out of ignorance or they simply like to hear themselves make noise.

There's that, but there's also this:

$1:

In 2011, CBC reported that the prime minister and defence minister were involved in a "tug-of-war" about changing the jet's colour from it's traditional military grey. The defence department argued that anything but grey would be too visible "whenever the passenger jet is sent on troop and cargo missions to risky locales."
But alas, the PMO gets what it wants.

Link.

Ego over practicality/safety I guess.

They aren't complaining about going away from gunmetal grey.

It's the colour blue.

[martin14]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

It's the colour blue.

Yeah, that red, white and blue.


Makes us look too much like those damn 'muricans.

Or the British.

Or the Russians.


Or about a dozen other countries.


Libs are far too stupid and uneducated to understand the colours of the roundell.

Guess the new Jet's logo didn't help them either.

[Canadian_Mind]

Robair Robair:

Ego over practicality/safety I guess.

Radar/IR missiles doesn't care if the jet is gun-metal Grey or florescent pink. If it is being shot at by machine gun or cannon fire, whether from a combat jet or from a shooter on the ground, I doubt it really makes much of a difference what the colour is.

Think about it this way, when we as a country were ready to go to war with the Soviets, this was the basic colour scheme for all non-combat aircraft. This whole gun-metal grey theme didn't really come about till the end of the cold war. If the colour was such a critical factor for non-combat jets, the airforce would have been running the gun-metal grey colour scheme for all aircraft since 1946.

[BartSimpson]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Red white and blue are the colours of the RCAF roundel. They're complaining either out of ignorance or they simply like to hear themselves make noise.

I'd think that the splash of bleu is a polite nod to La Belle Province.

[raydan]

That's what I was going to say... Québec blue, nice.

[Zipperfish]

I thought it was the Conservatvie logo so I was kind of pissed, but it's the RCAF roundel, so no problem.

[SigPig]

Personally I don't like the new scheme because I find the blue and white overpower the red which to me should have been more prominent. I do like the GoC down the side along with the coat of arms which is nicely done.

As for the whole issue with it being painted "conservative blue", nobody seemed to take issue when the 2009 demo CF-18 was painted predominantly blue. That this was an RCAF thing rather than a Conservative thing is more likely in this case.