Anti-flash white
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Anti-flash white is a brilliant white colour commonly seen on United States and British nuclear bombers in the 1950s and 1960s. The purpose of the colour was to reflect some of the thermal radiation from nuclear explosion, protecting the aircraft and its occupants. For the same reason, British nuclear bombers were given – though not at first, until the problem was considered – pale pink and blue roundels rather than the traditional dark red, white, and blue. United States aircraft carried no underside insignia at all.
Apart form its use on the V bombers anti-flash white was applied to several British prototype aircraft, including the Blackburn Buccaneer and the British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2.
The anti-flash white paint used on the British Avro Vulcan was manufactured by Cellon, and that on the Handley Page Victor by Titanine.
[edit] See also
- Vickers Valiant – the third British "V bomber" (together with the Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor mentioned above.)
[edit] References
- The V-Bombers - The Handley Page Victor - part 3 by Bill Gunston - Aeroplane Monthly - March 1981 issue.
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