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> From: "Dick Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [RCSE] Color/Visibility & WWII
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> Brett Jaffee noted:
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> >The worst, of course, is chrome. I have a small T-6 T
amson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Color/Visibility & WWII
Brett Jaffee noted:
>The worst, of course, is chrome. I have a small T-6 Texan power
>plane which has wings covered in chrome monokote.
the nostalgia class. :)
Bill Rakozy
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From: Clarkson, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [RCSE] Color/Visibility
One thing that I have found helpful is to match the color transmitted by
special sung
One thing that I have found helpful is to match the color transmitted by
special sunglasses to the colors on the glider. I use the Avian 515 orange
lens from http://www.suntiger.com combined with some small stripes of neon
orange krylon on the top of the wing. The orange really pops against the
bl
Hi Aerofoam,
I have flown lots of cross country gliders and found that for me, I could see dark
green best of all colors on the bottom of the wings. Maby that's why you can see trees
so far away. Yes, I know they are bigger than
a glider. Also green is easy on your eyes.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Th
At 07:36 PM 3/8/2002 -0600, you wrote:
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>Im wondering if anyone has done any research about which COLOR combinations
>are most visible at a distance.
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>Ive got a 145 Challenger (1974 Otto Heithecker design) almost ready to
>cover. (Yes, an all wood (Laser Cut) nostalgia beauty from www.skybe
At 12:19 AM 3/9/2002, Tony J. O'Hara wrote:
>Color perception measurements show that our color resolution (hue) is much
>less sensitive than our brightness resolution. (Approx. 1/3 to 1/4 less!)
>In fact it was that property of our eyes that enabled back in 1956 the NTSC
>color TV system to be inv
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Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Color/Visibility
> The worst, of course, is chrome. I have a small T-6 Texan power plane
which has wings covered in chrome monokote. The wings are almost completely
invisible 90% of the time
RCSE-List f
Not sure if anyone else experiences this, but I have problems with purples and blues
when viewed with a backdrop of distant hills or mountains (so you get the purple/brown
sort of effect). At one time, my Renegade sloper had a beautiful pearl blue paint job
and white fuse. The wing would all
No matter what color you paint a plane, it will end up black when
highlighted against the sky (Mr. Murphy said that). In addition, I
guarantee that if you try to paint the bottom of a wing a very visible
color (like OSHA safety purple, for example) it will absolutely
disappear in a beautiful
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