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Interesting- long time ago I have find info about captured Yugoslav airplane also painted black by Germans.

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Yes I remember. Green and ocre they were, with yellow bellies! :)
I have my own little theory for that one. When you look at a blue sky for a long time, everything else tends to get yellow. Add yellow to two tones of grey (RLM 74/75) and you might actually see something that's green with ocre and a yellow belly.

Here's a nice related optical illusion: http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/O...erception.html (choose Colour Perception)
Notice how "RLM 74" goes all ocre on your eyes when surrounded by "sky"! :D

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Pretty interesting optical illusions - the spinning spiral and back-of-the-hand is a weird one !

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Skyraider,
With regard to your question several posts back, about the June 9, 1945 entry for a damaged Me-109 for Robert Wiggins, this is indeed a typo, and it should be 1944.

I would also note elsewhere on that page, that at the top they show Lee Archer with 5 victories, and at the bottom with 4.5. His correct score is 4; the entry at the top for July 20, 1944 is incorrect. His Form 5 does not show a flight on this date, nor does the mission report for this date list a victory. The error comes from Francis' history of the Tuskeegee airmen, who misread a very unofficial list.

Frank.

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I knew it must have been some form of optical illusion, but did not know that explanation is so simple! :D
If you could only expand it in a more scientific way, with some more samples of such illusions... :)

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on the black mustang erm might be a captured yak.
as ive read in many books too many"" some Italian planes were seen over berlin re 2000--- re 2005. and some all black painted me 109s .
GARY.

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As in my Previous Post-
My Father and Kelly Gross both are 100% Positive the " Black "
Fighter they encountered was a P - 51.
Mike

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Didn't the Finns claim some 'Russian' P-51s?

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well thats something new for me that i never known amazing stuff.
well good read.
thanks GARY

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on Russian p51ps not as i know of the RAF gave them 10 p51 A models.
thats a mystery for lease lend a book im reading now.
and 200 p47s.
GARY.