A study within the military showed that the most visible color for
identifying the shape of a plane against any background, is a solid, dark
blue...
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"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
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Howdy,

I've been looking all over, and I can't seem to find any discussions on
the
relative visibility of various colors for aircraft. I would guess that
the
best color might be different when viewed against the sky or the
ground.

I think white on top (contrast vs ground clutter) and dark on the
underside
(contrast vs sky) works well, like, for example, the factory Mooney
schemes,
http://www.mooney.com/ .

Julian Scarfe