The Aerodrome Forum - View Single Post

'14-'18aviationcollector · 19 November 2009, 07:51 AM

Hi John,

Thanks for the comments and the photo. I certainly wish I could help you but I don't know much about British night flying camouflage. I have seen many photos of roundels which have had the white scrubbed out with a dirty colour, presumably black or grey and I have recently seen some photos of an FE2 which was either restored (if it is an original) or constructed by one of the members of this site. It seems to be painted completely black, which would make sense for a night fighter. I am sure that many night fighters would have been standard P.C. 10 with darkened roundels, but it seems that there must have been some aeroplanes which were painted black. I have heard of NIVO but have never seen an original sample of it, so I could not tell you what colour it was. When you say "Nivo or otherwise was black", do you mean that Nivo was black, or that night fighters sometimes used Nivo or black? I always imagined that Nivo would have been a darker version of P.C. 10, but I don't know.

Thanks for any help or comments you might be able to offer, and I certainly wish I could help you more! I just wanted to let you know about the photo of the black FE2 and to find out anything else you might know about British night fighter camouflage.

Regards,

David.

19 November 2009, 07:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
'14-'18aviationcollector Forum Ace Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Canberra, A.C.T., Australia Posts: 1,379	Hi John, Thanks for the comments and the photo. I certainly wish I could help you but I don't know much about British night flying camouflage. I have seen many photos of roundels which have had the white scrubbed out with a dirty colour, presumably black or grey and I have recently seen some photos of an FE2 which was either restored (if it is an original) or constructed by one of the members of this site. It seems to be painted completely black, which would make sense for a night fighter. I am sure that many night fighters would have been standard P.C. 10 with darkened roundels, but it seems that there must have been some aeroplanes which were painted black. I have heard of NIVO but have never seen an original sample of it, so I could not tell you what colour it was. When you say "Nivo or otherwise was black", do you mean that Nivo was black, or that night fighters sometimes used Nivo or black? I always imagined that Nivo would have been a darker version of P.C. 10, but I don't know. Thanks for any help or comments you might be able to offer, and I certainly wish I could help you more! I just wanted to let you know about the photo of the black FE2 and to find out anything else you might know about British night fighter camouflage. Regards, David.