Aircraft Camouflage

sheepherder · 07-16-2016, 10:33 AM

Mac Cat has an album pic that appears occasionally in the Random Album Pictures, as it did today -

Pink Spitfire
The RAF painted some Spitfire airplanes a dull pink to make them impossible to spot in a early morning or late evening sky, particularly from the ground, allowing them to fly dangerous low level missions.

Coincidentally, I was looking through The Illustrated History Of Fighters by Bill Gunston (a coffee-table book) for my cousin's WW II AAF A-24 'Banshee' when I was struck by the paint on an early Bf-109. Very effective!

Bf 109
Bf109E-4/Trop of I/JG 27 flies over scrub-covered desert in Cyrenaica in 1941.

Eugen · 07-16-2016, 11:14 AM

Pink?! Now I never saw that appoach for camo before. I wonder how well it worked. Well, I guess, at least one survived. LOL.

07-16-2016, 10:33 AM	#1
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,195 Thanks: 1,413 Thanked 4,462 Times in 2,336 Posts	Aircraft Camouflage Mac Cat has an album pic that appears occasionally in the Random Album Pictures, as it did today - Pink Spitfire The RAF painted some Spitfire airplanes a dull pink to make them impossible to spot in a early morning or late evening sky, particularly from the ground, allowing them to fly dangerous low level missions. Coincidentally, I was looking through *The Illustrated History Of Fighters* by Bill Gunston (a coffee-table book) for my cousin's WW II AAF A-24 'Banshee' when I was struck by the paint on an early Bf-109. Very effective! Bf 109 Bf109E-4/Trop of I/JG 27 flies over scrub-covered desert in Cyrenaica in 1941. Attached Thumbnails __________________ I like my coffee the way I like my women... ...Cold and bitter...

07-16-2016, 11:14 AM	#2
Eugen User Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Newburgh,IN Posts: 793 Thanks: 400 Thanked 634 Times in 336 Posts	Pink?! Now I never saw that appoach for camo before. I wonder how well it worked. Well, I guess, at least one survived. LOL. __________________ “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain