On Mon, 02 May 2011 07:07:49 -0500, Mitchell Holman wrote:

The most overused paint scheme in aviation history.


What are the origins of this paint scheme? IIRC, it began
somewhere in the early WWII Pacific theater when it was
realized that foreign pilots were very superstitious (i.e.
frightened) over such a design.

But that would not explain the German biplanes that also
sport the pattern.

AP