Mike wrote:Brevet Cable wrote:Because unless I'm mistaken the same insipid yellow colour scheme was also one of those used on the WW1 aircraft used during training......
It's clear dope applied to uncoloured fabric, not 'insipid yellow', and all aircraft were finished that way until they thought it was a good idea to start applying camouflage later in the Great War. Nothing whatever to do with training.
Yep, because they never painted aircraft in any other colour during the early period, did they
It's insipid yellow....or are you trying to claim that it's completely colourless ?