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From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
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Posted for "Bill Kennedy" <bill_kennedy_3@hotmail.com>:

I don't have stats to back me up, but I'll offer something for you to consider 
anyway.

For the same reason that white protects your glass airplane better 
(reflectivity vs. absorbsion) it makes your airplane much easier to see from 
any distance -- thus, maybe reducing midair collision potential. Red turns to 
black at any distance and is much harder to see.

Bill Kennedy
N42BK


>I heard that someone at the Lancair fly-in was taking skin temperature
>readings on different colored airplanes.
>Does anyone know who did this? or have the data?