>I was wondering what are peoples opinions on what colors make for maximum >visibility and orientation. I believe it is universally accepted that the >upper surfaces should be a lite colour, usually white or yellow and the >under surfaces a dark color, black, green, red. Is red really a good color >choice? What about tailplanes, should they also be a different color? > >Thanks > >Michael Mike,(yankee spelling for Michael) Any dark colour will turn to black 25 feet from your eyeballs. So any dark colour will do for the bottom. A contrasting colour scheme will be better, put a 10 inches wide section of light colour in the inboard panel. This makes it looks a pair of head light in the sky. Surpriseingly, the pink colour is very good for a hazy(spell SMOG in the LA ) day Top colour will normally white. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Brian Chan, AFDD Instrumentation Group * MS-215-2, US Army, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 * 650-604-0389, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
