Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet VB-5 of USS Yorktown 1938 [Fictional] v1.0
Presenting the F/A-18E Super Hornet in the multicolour markings of bomber squadron 5 operating from CV-5 USS Yorktown during the late 1930s. The markings feature bright yellow on the upper wings, primary colours (different for each plane in the squadron) on the nose and rear tail section and a bare metal fuselage. This repaint specifically depicts the paint adorning the number 7 plane in the squadron while it operated Northrop BT-1 divebombers in 1938, with a blue nose, red tail and blue band aft of the wings. The squadron insignia, “the winged mask of Satan”, is painted below the canopy. The blue diagonal lines on the upper wing surfaces were to aid the pilots to position their aircraft for flying in a chevron formtion.
The BT-1 would be a brief evolutionary step in the development of carrier based aircraft and would inspire the development of the SBD-Dauntless dive/scout bomber that would become one of the US NAVY’s main aerial offensive weapons during the war in the Pacific in the second World War and would replace the BT-1 directly as the mount of VB-5. The Dauntless would also receive far more subtle paint schemes during the course of the war.
