[RCSE] All black color scheme?

2002-03-16 Thread Harley Michaelis
If you ever left your carbon-skinned wing upside down in the sun, you know it will get so hot that a foam core will deteriorate under it and be ruined or it will at least delaminate in spots. Same reason a wing black on top is bad news. > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Sen

Re: [RCSE] All black color scheme?

2002-03-16 Thread tony estep
--- Scobie Puchtler or Sarah Felstiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with ALL black, even > if it's very visible, it seems that you run the > risk at high altitudes/distances of the 'image > reversal' problem in which a silhouette-only image > can be mentally reversed (as to which wing is > closer

[RCSE] All black color scheme?

2002-03-16 Thread Scobie Puchtler or Sarah Felstiner
One thought that favors having SOME contrast between tops and bottoms or SOME assymetry in a glider color scheme is that with ALL black, even if it's very visible, it seems that you run the risk at high altitudes/distances of the 'image reversal' problem in which a silhouette-only image can be men