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Wow, thank you. Honestly never occurred to me that there could be leaking on that scale.

When looking at images of this Apache , i am struck by the darker areas of much lower roughness on the entire tail section and tail rotor . What exactly am i seeing here. Were these areas in specific washed, if so why there and not elsewhere. I wondered if the entire tail side was resprayed some time in the past (there is still chipping to metal on the details in this cleaner area), but the transitions from cleaner to dirtier does not look quite like that to me especially on the vertical where the rotor connects, could it have been a large previous fluid leak. I am really interested in the logic behind weathering and maintenance patterns . https://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/h-64/pages/dayton_ah-64d_04.shtml https://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/h-64/pages/dayton_ah-64d_05.shtml

Thanks so much Dave, i saw other markings on panels that seemed pretty intuitive, like for tie downs and lifting, but this one stumped me and i didnt know the magic words to google. Iainpeden , yeah you will be able to see in the photos that the red paint in particular seems extremely prone to complete separation from coats beneath. I actually took an absolute shed load of images of the plane for work, as i wanted super close up images if aircraft wear and tear. A few are blurry, and almost all are at extreme close distance to point you might not know what part of aircraft you are looking at, but if anyone is interested i will leave folder in my dropbox for a few weeks. It's a few gigs tho so keep that in mind. XD https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5jyarezrrae3pt/buckaneer.7z?dl=0 I passed the link for the folder on to the person who accepts photos for use here, but i don't think they saw message yet. so i can always reupload if they need them.

I noticed this symbol in a number of places on the aircraft. Does anyone know what it means? https://imgur.com/a/f6PRpQ6

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/xx897 Found pictures of it from before it transferred to shannon. It is actually really sad how badly keeping it outdoors has degraded it in ten years. I will note that while the pattern i spotted is not present, there is definitely a completely different textural quality to top surface of wing in these images that seems to follow panel boundaries. I think you hit nail on the head about it being stripped, but by previous museum maybe and it was abandoned when it was sold to shannon.

It was indeed used for testing tornado avionics, and prior to that apparently was involved in the Falklands and gulf briefly or so i was told by staff. They didn't have an explanation for the wing paint situation, the paint work has not been touched / no repairs have been carried out on it since they got it a decade ago. you can see more about it here. https://shannonaviationmuseum.com/shannon-aviation-museum-collection/blackburn-buccaneer-xx-897/

Hi, i took some photos of a buccaneer and was wondering if someone could explain something. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1v0i7zene2qcgmm/IMG_20220318_132755.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7it53v2m1bch84z/IMG_20220318_150933_1.jpg?dl=0 The upward facing wing surfaces (in the folded position), and the downward facing surfaces have very different surface characteristics, and i was hoping an expert could chime in as to why. The upward surface (what would originally have been underside ) has generally a generally consistent tone and roughness value https://www.dropbox.com/s/fa56ai9kbj75xzm/IMG_20220318_151411.jpg?dl=0 though fuselage seems glossier. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zqvagmrfi8xvkpb/IMG_20220318_142211.jpg?dl=0 The downward facing surface is what i am really interested in, what exactly am i seeing here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kyw4op0mr5x3hhm/IMG_20220318_141757.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/wqy0p9jyhgh3m8b/IMG_20220318_141528.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/uc7hgibw10vowde/IMG_20220318_151628.jpg?dl=0 Not sure it translates, but i could see a roundel murkily through it. the pattern of light and dark almost looks structural . Is it possible that 30 years of wind and storms (which vertical wings are fully exposed to unlike fuselage) could abrade the paint to show previous camo pattern that i see elsewhere in this thread? And it's only really visible on what would be the wing topside because the underside colour . Is this effect bleed through of previous camo via other means? I would really like to understand what i am seeing here to find out whether it is appropriate to use on a unrelated 3d project.