Someone told me that the yellow paint on the tips of some propellers you see were put on to prevent the black paint from sliding off when the prop was turning. Is this true?
I always thought it was for safety, so ground crews could see it spinning and thus not inadvertently play “will it blend?” with their appendages.
I though the black was there to keep the yellow from sliding in… [:P]
And by the way, Doogs nailed it, the spinning yellow should be easier to see!
I have a bridge for sale…
Mark
Is it a good bridge, I recently purchased some swampland in Florida, I may need it… [:$]
In Soviet Russia, propeller see you!
/guess safety propellers were for us soft western pigs…
I thought they painted the tips yellow because they ran out of black paint…
That is almost like when my small kids believed my Father when he told them honey is bee poop.
Any prop blade that is painted will wear out starting at the leading edge, and will be notable after a couple weeks. Paint is paint and color don’t matter. [;)]
Owen
Oy gevalt 
Or when my little sister believed our uncle who told her, with the straightest face I’ve ever seen, that the chocolate milk she enjoyed so much actually came from a chocolate milk cow.
You mean its not?
Should get some sort of Award for the most stupid [cnsod] Post on the aircraft forum.
Regards, Rick
Actually you can find many photos of Soviet aircraft with unpainted propellers. Since they didn’t paint the tips yellow the black paint fell off. [:P]
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Actually the Soviets didn’t paint the props at all early in the war, then just the back side to make the prop less visible to the pilot then finally overall black since at the right angle and lighting conditions the unpainted props could reflect light making it easier to spot by enemy aircraft. They did not adopt warning stripes until very late in the war, possibly even post war. I guess they figured the ground crew would figure out to stay away from moving props pretty quickly, that is not the kind of mistake you make twice. [+o(]
Manny is just trying to make everyone mad cause he has too much spare time.
On the P-38 they had to switch the props every 100 hours, to get the paint even.
I think they wanted to use pink, but Gary Grant used it up on his submarine.
As the comedian Carlos Mencia would say…DEE DEE DEEEEE[:D]
Betcha didn’t know that the “corkscrew” paint on prop spinners that the Germans used here &there was against USAAF regulations… People would be pulled towards the blades…