Talk:Air Force blue

message: The members of the Canadian Air Force are sometimes referred to as "Crab Fats" by members of the other branches of the Canadian Forces, due to the similar hue of Air Force Blue to the fatty ointment that was once issued to combat pubic lice.  (I'm not making this up!)  Members of the British RAF are also referred to by this slur.  Would this be too off-colour (no pun intended) to be included in a Wikipedia article? Naymetayken (talk) 23:39, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would it be too uncouth? 

message: Isn't this colour by definition PMS 549 C, as per the MOD flag book (or whatever) on the issue? 118.90.92.132 (talk) 11:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

message: In British flag contexts, Air Force Blue and Sky Blue are synonyms. 118.90.39.252 (talk) 08:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sky Blue 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: As part of an initiative to prune entries in List of colors: A–F, List of colors: G–M, and List of colors: N–Z, one entry I reviewed, "Air Force blue (RAF)" is linked to this page. While this page has an entry, the associated reference is no longer found.  My hope is someone can do some research to find a better link.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:54, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed it from List of colors: A–F. If someone sorts this out, I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a ping so I can restore it. Thanks.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Force blue (RAF) 

message: The article states that Air Force blue is Pantone 287.
This is followed by a reference which might be a dead link (Some editors have reported issues with that site today. My attempt to retrieve it produced nothing today.)
The link in the Colour Coordinate table, is a bare URL which ought to be changed but it is currently a 404 and appears to be the same as the one used in generating the internet  archive link which is also not working possibly only at the moment. It seems likely that there should be a working link for the Air Force color somewhere; we shouldn't need to resort to Internet archive links.
I note that if you use the Pantone color finder and search for 287, the query will return six colors
* PANTONE 287 C 	HEX/HTML 003087
* PANTONE 287 CP 	HEX/HTML 1A4784
* PANTONE 287 U 	HEX/HTML 3C5896
* PANTONE 287 UP	HEX/HTML 4C689F
* PANTONE 287 XGC 	HEX/HTML 073581
* PANTONE PQ-287C	HEX/HTML 003087
(The first and sixth have matching hex values, but differ re CMYK)
Note that none of these entiries match the attributes in the Colour Coordinate table.
I hope that some editor will track down a working link for this color so we can identify which of the Pantone entries is correct then correct the color coordinates table and carry that over to the List_of_colors:_A–F.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:33, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Force blue 

message: I sent the following email to the Air Force:
--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:24, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal request for reference