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Painting a Meteor pilot


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I'm planning to put a pilot in my Xtrakit Meteor F.8, anyone know what colours I should be painting his flight suit etc?

Well....my old man's flight suit was very much grey DSG in colour IIRC.....that was late 1950's.

Rich

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Grey suit and silver "bonedome", white gloves and yellow orange Mae West.

John

I watch a conflict of Wings the other day, lots of Vampires and a Meteor, Pilots where dressed as above.

Dave

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Bone domes were silver and were seldom any other colour,they were worn over a separate Blue /grey flying helmet (visible in the picture), the visor was black perspex but often had a black cotton cover over them. The suits also had a blue /grey cravat. (Scarff) attached to the inside of the collar I still have the white leather gloves. Later the gloves went to green but were replaced by white as the pilots had difficulty seening their hands in the cockpit.

John

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