DISGUISE FOR AIRPLANES.
/Jazz airplanes, splashed with <pieer colours to give distorted effects and so puzzle an enemy pilot that he would be unable to 'tell until it was close up in what direction a jazz machine was moving, or which was its nose and which its tail, have been receiving the attention ot the British Air Ministry experts. A famous artist was commissioned by the Air Ministry to! paint slashes across the fuselage of an airplane in black, dazzling yellow, and other colours. The disguise was perfect. As the “Yellow Peril,” as it is called, rose into the air it appeared to be a mixture of a helicopter, a back-to-front airplane, and, an aerial ram of the type constructed in imagination by writers (if fiction.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2119, 26 May 1925, Page 7
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126DISGUISE FOR AIRPLANES. King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2119, 26 May 1925, Page 7
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