for night scheme you'll have to change the roundels plus don't use pure black, oh and the lettering was in red... if i'm wrong JM will correct me......
Don't get too serious about the above image, it's just a CS4 cheat on the original. If I were to do the black machine properly, the lettering would have been dark red, etc, etc. Also, as you say, some effort would have been made to produce a realistic semi-matt (pun - sorry) finish.
Machines meant to fly only in the dark really didn't need any idents anyway. What does surprise me is that no one ever tried to quieten the engines. Just imagine trying to find a badly lit clearing in the middle of the night in occupied France in the sort of bad weather common to Europe all through the war. The pilots and navigators were absolute heroes, not to mention those that they transported.
Yeah, nowadays i know of 1 aircraft that has blades that don't give its position away ( i believe this is right) the pave-hawk, seen it a few times at Mildenhall with the 160th SOAR, mainly when Delta has been at the SAS base and vice versa. has omni-directional blades or something like that, may not be quieter but its harder to tell which way its coming from, unlike the chinook which you can tell instantly where it is and the apache, if you see hills in a warzone these days and hear a chopper 9 times out of 10 it's an apache on NOE exercise.
Lysander used a bristol mercury engine i think, not the quietest radial in the world but very nice sounding, i'm sure the germans though "nice sound" and went to sleep i wish these noise regulations didn't apply it'd be heaven, well for me anyway.
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i wish these noise regulations didn't apply it'd be heaven, well for me anyway.
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