[WWI] Home Defence Suardron colours

[rob]

Hi,

PC-10.  Really?

Thx.  It looked too dark for that.  Thought it was black.

So at that time, no real difference between day and night colours, then?

Especially with the Be2s?

Rob Stewart


Bob Pearson wrote:
> PC10 front on Leefe-Robinson's a/c
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> Bob
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>   Subject: [WWI] Home Defence Suardron colours
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>   Hi,
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>   Does anyone know the general colourings of the BE2s of the early home
> defence squadrons?
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>    I saw Bob Pearson's profile of Leefe Robinson's 39Sqn one, with a black
> front and the rest of the fuselage/flying surfaces CDL.
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>   Was that widespread, standard or only his flight/sqn?  Or his personal
> markings?
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>   I know later that they had NIFO and removed the white from the roundels,
> but I'm more interested in the early days, around 1915-1916.
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>   TIA
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>   Rob Stewart.
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