On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:04:08 -0800, Dale wrote:

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:



I wonder, though -- do landing lights in the daytime really do that
much for you? I seem to recall reading that bright lights coming at
you during daylight hours actually tends to camouflage what is behind
them.

(Groping back into the distant recesses of my history minor here...)
Didn't the British actually experiment with using extremely bright
lights to hide their aircraft during the day?

Do headlights hide an oncoming car? No.

But they make a VW look like it's twice as far away as a buic right
beside it.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

The US did some work using a bank of lights facing forward to hide an
aircraft for ASW work. From what I've read it was effective, but was
never implemented.