iflircaircraft

Hi All:
This past sunday I flew my CMPro Corsair for the first time. It flew great but I found myself losing it's orientation a couple of times. I don't have any markings (stars and bars,etc) on it yet. Will they help?
The bottom is my concern since it is all a medium grey. I was thinking of painting the bottom tips and the under side of the horizontal tail yellow.
BTW: The entire plane is a flat ,not glossy, finish which has no glare in the sun.
What do you guys think? Any suggestions would be a great help.
Thanks

Happy Flying


Tom

carrellh

That's a common problem with military aircraft. They were painted a certain way to make them hard to see from the ground. To keep the pilots alive in combat, that's a good thing. For an RC pilot, looking at it from the ground, that's not a good thing. The decals should help some. Yellow, or another visible color, in strategic areas should help a lot.

w8ye

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Sharply contrasting colors help visibility

deckerv

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Could always put some stripes on it like this.. maybe not totally scale since it's blue/grey.. but hey..if it works!!

http://modelingmadness.com/others/bo...eaverf4u7c.jpg

Cyclic Hardover

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I put a radical "invasion stripe" on this thing to keep it oriented. Its a 72inch Modeltech P-47. Heres a wing on a WM 40 size P-51