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This photo has stuck with me since I first saw it 50 years ago - how effective the camouflage is.

Quote from: fsn on 26 June 2021, 10:13:07 AM


This photo has stuck with me since I first saw it 50 years ago - how effective the camouflage is.

I wonder just how effective it was when moving against a still background.

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 26 June 2021, 09:48:49 AM
Small minds think together...

Squek for your self.

Probably not that effective if the 109 was moving - movement draws the eye..

Quote from: John Cook on 26 June 2021, 10:36:31 AM
I wonder just how effective it was when moving against a still background.

I suspect that it 'may' have, at least contributed' so some 'blurring'... esp. in angles with less shadow.
At much greater distances, height difference and altitude, the aircraft would 'appear' to move more slowly, relative to the ground.
Pretty good camo! In 'rhe right circumstances' may have helped... and one right circumstance may mean the difference between survival and not.

Form VERY LIMITED experience in a civvy light aircraft, (An Uncle used to take us to Airshows in his, back in the 70s!), even 'brightly coloured' light planes can 'blur' passing against against an appropriate background momentarily. Hot, UK, summer 'haze' had an effect too... 'diluting' the image to the eye.

Quote from: fsn on 26 June 2021, 10:13:07 AM


This photo has stuck with me since I first saw it 50 years ago - how effective the camouflage is.

That's the badger! Thanks FSN. 🦡

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 26 June 2021, 11:28:45 AM
That's the badger! Thanks FSN. 🦡

Probably not as effective when the attackers are a bunch of beardy fellows at night in jeeps shooting twin Vicker's Ks.

Long range spotting is radar.
Gunnery range is fairly close visual, where outlines are fairly evident.
Difficult to guarantee a background (sky, cloud, ground)...

It was Downing himself who promoted this two tone scheme.
Firstly because the Radar wAs mostly placed at the cost. So once In land it was the Observer Corps
With Binoculars as the only Aid to the Mk1 eyeball. Same for most AAA emplacements. The idea was the black and white
Helped distinguish British Aircraft.
Regards
Sean


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