These little "maker's plaque" type markings are important for the day-to-day use of an item, as they convey what the maker feels is the core purpose of the product.
That definitely is more than just marketing wank.
This too. One could argue that the yellow "<" and the word "FARA" are "Jet engine marketing", but as having once been qualified to work on an civilian airport apron area, I promise there's another purpose ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
This individual aircraft, a SAAB J32B Lansen, fvnr 32569, was delivered 1959 and served as all-weather interceptor at a few different wings. In 1972 it was rebuilt into a J32E ECM platform, and served in that rôle up to about 1998.
So... not "Fukkin'-A, Run Away!!!" then...? ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
mnem
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If you get too close it's bad
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/165878
Don't expand the thumbnail if you are squeamish.
Yeh, don't mess with aircraft, be they propeller or jet, they take no prisoners. I'm sure that there will be an incident on the airfield that I go to quite often. There are 2 cafe's, both are open to the public and both are located very close to taxiways which the public have to use to gain access to the airfield and the cafe's. While there are no jet passenger planes of the size in the incident above, there are a business jets along with some ex military fighters jets and trainers, in use by flight training and display teams along with bucket loads of propeller planes, some of which are large C54, and often a pair of Dakotas. Added into this mix you also have a few helicopters, police and air ambulance and some military ones that come in for servicing.
So far there have a few cases of people not knowing how dangerous it is, walking across the path of these taxiing planes
![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/facepalm.gif)
, one occasion causing the delay of the air ambulance launch because some idiot was standing in the middle of the taxiway photographing the helicopter trying to get airborne with the pilot frantically waving his arms at the photographer to get out of his way.
The airfield ops team tell me that they also get idiots riding bikes and driving cars on the actual runway, FFS.
Personally, I hope that I never have to witness anything like the above happening
![Scared :scared:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/scared.gif)