canberra kid Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Was day-glow orange paint a thing in 1949/1950 John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Not at that time it wasn't. More of the 1960's onwards period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Paul J said: Not at that time it wasn't. More of the 1960's onwards period. Thanks Psul, that's about what I was thinking. I can't recall seeing any day-glow that early on, not on aircraft anyway. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Day-glo paints existed before WW2 and were used for a number of uses during the war by US forces but I believe they appeared on aircraft schemes only in the late '50s. 1957 is the first time I've seen fluorescent paint mentioned in any USAF regulation, with the USN following in 1959. As you may be interested in UK use, I'd have to dig the relevant documentation but I believe any use started well into the '60s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossington 2 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I think US/USN usage was before the late 50's. Hellcat and B-17 drones are reputed to have used dayglo well before then. Second line and training units seem to be the early adopters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 10 hours ago, Giorgio N said: Day-glo paints existed before WW2 and were used for a number of uses during the war by US forces but I believe they appeared on aircraft schemes only in the late '50s. 1957 is the first time I've seen fluorescent paint mentioned in any USAF regulation, with the USN following in 1959. As you may be interested in UK use, I'd have to dig the relevant documentation but I believe any use started well into the '60s 4 hours ago, Ossington said: I think US/USN usage was before the late 50's. Hellcat and B-17 drones are reputed to have used dayglo well before then. Second line and training units seem to be the early adopters. umm, I should have known it wouldn't be clear cut, thanks for your input chaps, I have something to mull over now. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 42 minutes ago, canberra kid said: umm, I should have known it wouldn't be clear cut, thanks for your input chaps, I have something to mull over now. John Well, if its only RAF then from the 1960s onwards. US then maybe earlier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 5 hours ago, Ossington said: I think US/USN usage was before the late 50's. Hellcat and B-17 drones are reputed to have used dayglo well before then. Second line and training units seem to be the early adopters. Could be, but the official specifications for these schemes did not mention fluorescent colours, only standard glossy colours like yellow, orange ANA 508 and Insignia Red. All pictures I've seen seem to confirm that use of standard schemes, but of course there could be many more that I've missed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 The thing I'm looking for is non standard and British, so the fact that the paint existed in my time frame is useful, though it does throw a brightly coloured spanner in the works! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptmvarsityfan Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) I'm sure dayglo was used by the RAF from the late fifties. A few years ago I completed the Special Hobby Balliol in a silver/dayglo scheme taken from a profile in SAM and this aircraft was out of large scale service by the end of the decade. Meteor T7's and vampire T11's also were finished in silver and dayglo for a while, will need to check my references for dates. I think its a good looking scheme and can be spectacular on a model! Cheers, Paul Edited April 8, 2019 by ptmvarsityfan Duplicated line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 I checked into the RAF use of dayglo paints and if I understood things right then these were introduced around 1958, so a bit earlier than I initially believed. Wonder if it may be worth contacting the company that started it all to verify when they started making aircraft-grade paints. The Day-Glo Color Corp., the company started in the '30s by the inventors of dayglo paints, is still in existance and maybe they could help. https://www.dayglo.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 (edited) A very interesting subject As far as I can see, in the US it was adopted from the late 1950s. The B-17, Privateers drones etc. were essentially red/orange and not dayglo. I'm happy to be proved wrong, though Martin Edited April 9, 2019 by RidgeRunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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