soaringpilot2 wrote in
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I wonder about doing the candy stripe spiral on them, or painting the
blades different colors...


The candy stripe spiral on the spinner was a recognition thing, the
Germans started doing that in the summer of '44. The Japanese did
something similar thru the war years by painting the inboard leading
edge of the wing yellow. Quick recognition by your comrades in a
dogfight when head on...

This is the first I've heard of the 1/3 and 2/3's strobe effect, I
thought it was also for recognition...Maybe I'll try it on my 172...


I asked in my shop and sure enough I was told that our spinners have the
spiral on them for bird avoidance.
We also used to turn our radar on in cavu weather for the same reason, but
now we turn it on for every flight anyway..

Bertie