I don’t believe you’re finding “hogwash”, this stuff is a joke to get newbies, running around for something that doesn’t exist!. “Badger talk”, on the other hand, IS real!!!
In my area, propwash is being put into gallon jugs and sold four to a box(look for boxes!!!). Now, if I could only find where I left that skyhook, I’d be in good shape.
For replicating “non-slip yellow”, the best method is to prime the area with white dyed non-slip yellow(flat), then procede to the yellow colored non-slip yellow.
Since looking into the subject further, it seems the Germans came across the Gelb chemistry while studying the effectiveness of air dropped banana skins as a method of slowing down any force advancing on them.
While irradiating the skins in a purpose built microwave chamber, they mutated & gave the opposite effect from what was expected. Some clever physicist found an effective method of mass producing these & managed to combine them with a specialised paint - production was carried out in a converted ball bearing factory.
This is actually true…we had planned on painting the Normandy beaches with this “gelb” paint on June the 7th…but ya’ll know why we didn’t get arounf to it…[:(]…
I saw a technical bulletin on the P-38. As you know the props rotate in opposite directions. This was done not just to reduce torque, but also to conserve paint. Through wind tunnel tests it was found that the propellor paint would be tossed in the direction that the propellor was spinning. By carefully designing the propellors they made it so that the paint would be thrown over the cockpit and caught by the opposite propellor. Earlier trials had the cockpit just covered with paint on both sides until they could get thepitch just right. This lengthened the time need to get the propellors repainted.
