RE: This years projects
The Phoenix theme was my exact intent. It is a bit more subtle but if you look closely you will see that they both have forked tails also. I was initially planning my classic pattern checkerboard at the root and striped leading edge, but as I started laying out the tape for the trim colors I decided to go this way because they were both phoenixes. The bottoms are all yellow. As I get older I have reverted, again, to the old trainer trick of distinctive difference between the top and bottom simply because my eye sight is not what it used to be and the contrast does help, particularly in following the orientation in a spin.