Tag: yellow paint
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Cessna Crane – Part Three – You May Not Have Noticed
I just thought – you may not have noticed that the newly-completed RCAF Cessna Crane has been painted yellow. They do that in case you are likely to stumble into it in a darkened hangar… So I follow suit. I make up a mixture of Mr. Color lacquer – one full bottle of No. 109…
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Miles Magister – Part Three – Yellow And Silver
The Miles Magister will join my club of planes that look like they can fly right – sweet, sleek craft that give confidence in their aerodynamics and do not depend upon brute force to heave themselves off the ground. Aircraft that swoop, not lurch. I do like some of the cruder planes as well, but…
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RCAF Twin Otter – Part Five – The Clown Car
Sorry about that, Folks…but you have to admit that bright yellow and red has a certain circus feel to it. In this case a flying circus without the WW1 reference. The illustrations for this sort of aircraft paint job are nearly always spectacular – remember what I wrote about box art being based around yellow…
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Good Morning Walter – Part 13 – Mellow Yellow
Good Morning, Walter, and welcome to the wonderful world of crazy old Australians with yellow cars. This might not seem to be unusual, but the cars you’ll see here in this report are from the Western Australian Hot Rod Show that we have every year. They are real, but how real and how old can…
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