The Little World

Air warfare ain’t what it used to be.

Gone are the days when you had to hide amongst the clouds by painting your machine light blue – or a multi-colour if it was to sit on the ground. Nowadays the electronics look past any colour you might spray on and see the true signature of the aircraft. Or not, if the designers have made the right decisions about the shape and materials.

But the recent business of low-vis grey paint schemes seems a bit pointless if you are not going to be shot at by people looking for you. You might as well go back to the old German Jasta system of WW1 and paint the things like Fisher-Price toys. In fact that would be a good idea to help defray the cost of the planes; sell advertising rights on them like they do on Formula One cars.

Imagine the terror in the mind of an enemy pilot if he was being chased by a Supercheap Auto interceptor.