It has to do with the base used. Light colors use a white or light base which has more titanium dioxide in it which makes it more opaque. Darker colors have a more clear base that has little to no titanium dioxide.
It has to do with the base used. Light colors use a white or light base which has more titanium dioxide in it which makes it more opaque. Darker colors have a more clear base that has little to no titanium dioxide.
Excuse me?Nope. You ALL wrong.
It’s because “black don’t crack”.
Excuse me?
Did you read all of the posts homie?I’m sorry... You “are all” wrong.
The Mig 31 could only briefly maintain mach 3 on those intercepts...However they got their timing down and that along with the AA-9 scared us enough to start keeping our distance and eventually end the flights into Soviet airspace.
Did you read all of the posts homie?
They didn't have them in the late fifties/early sixties. Everything about the Blackbird was special, and all of it was designed to manage heat, and they had to invent at least 75% of what went into the old girl.Answer is already in this thread. My question is, if they wanted to eliminate the 1100 pounds paint would add, why didn't they explore other methods of coatings/treatments? It's not like they didn't have the budget for it..
Aww hell, tear off every exterior panel and send it out for PVD nitride.
It's an easy subject for me to get carried away on. One of the all-time great engineering feats humanity has managed to come up with (so far), and then there's the Skunkworks, and how Johnson managed it, and then there's the sheer size of the program when you add in the tankers, maintenance, special supplies, different variants. One of my favorite subjects.Thanks for going thru this exercise. You never know when you need to think outside the box, and lots of time its already been done, just with a different box.
It's an easy subject for me to get carried away on. One of the all-time great engineering feats humanity has managed to come up with (so far), and then there's the Skunkworks, and how Johnson managed it, and then there's the sheer size of the program when you add in the tankers, maintenance, special supplies, different variants. One of my favorite subjects.
The only thing I think was never cross tried was between KC-135's and KC-10 on keeping the Blackbird fleet fueled on missions, as I have never seen a Blackbird in photos or video's behind a KC-10 only the KC-135's.