Aeronautics and astronautics – Miscellaneous
Patent
1976-03-22
1978-05-16
Bentley, Stephen C.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Miscellaneous
89 36R, 427280, 428195, 428919, B64D 700
Patent
active
040894916
ABSTRACT:
A camouflaged aircraft, surface vessel, vehicle or the like comprising an aircraft having upper and lower surfaces and having a plurality of visually contrasting surface coatings thereon, the coatings having lines of demarcation therebetween the surface coatings comprising one light and one dark coating, the dark coating being on a major portion of the upper surface of said aircraft, the light coating being on a major portion of the lower surface of the aircraft, substantially all of the lines of demarcation of the coatings when viewed from the side of the aircraft generally paralleling the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, and substantially all of the lines of demarcation of the coatings when viewed from above the aircraft being generally diagonal with respect to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft and substantially all of the lines of demarcation running in substantially the same direction.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1305296 (1919-06-01), Mackay
patent: 2190691 (1940-02-01), Barclay
patent: 2292848 (1942-08-01), Robson
patent: 3967026 (1976-06-01), Dalblom
The Encyclopedia Americana, "Concealing Coloration," pp. 325-326a, Countershading and Disruptive Markings, p. 326b, 1964.
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