WWII and Onwards Aircraft Interior Colors

While OD and green were popular colors during the war, more and more popular after the war were light and medium grey. Of course, the upper area near windows/canopy was usually flat black in both eras.

Many Armee de l'Air craft used a dark blue (Bleu de Nuit).

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Depends what type you're looking for; not all are the same. For example, if you go here:

One word of caution for looking at pictures of extant planes; museums, and especially private owners, frequently repaint during restoration and it's not always correct. Don't get hooked on a color you see in a restored aircraft.

That being said, if the color is close enough, it's good enough.

---- Stephen

This may help some:

Anybody know what the fuzzy stuff around the window frames of this B-58 pilot's cockpit is all about?:

Luftwaffe stuff over here:

on 11/12/2007 4:57 PM Pat Flannery said the following:

Looks like fatigue.

Pat Flannery wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

I've tried all kinds of search parameters for interior colors, and never came across the sites mentioned here and in your previous post.

So, whenever some dip answers a request for info with "Google it!", I control my urge to flame him and wait for someone with actual information to post a reply.

Thanks, Pat!

-- CV

Yeah, to me it looked like the glazing was some sort of a laminated material that's coming apart. What was the heat like over the windscreen at full speed?

Pat

Big Al:

Check out this series of three articles covering US WW II Interior Colors.

CortxVortx wrote:

I'll tell you the trick I use that's very effective in finding stuff like this; instead of doing a Google web search, do a Google image search and then backtrack to the websites that show images of what you're interested in. Case in point...Google a image search of something like "Me-262 cockpit" (you can try it with or without the qoutation marks) and see what you get; page after page of images of Me-262 cockpits. Then connect to the pages they are from and look for more info. In this case one of the images that showed up on the image search showed a Bf-109 cockpit, so that's a good place to start looking for images of Luftwaffe aircraft cockpits, as the webpage apparently has both a Bf-109 and Me-262 somehow related to it:

I just came from the library and picking up a couple of books, but I noticed a book "Cold War Cockpits". Didn't borrow it, but it was full of color photos of cold war jets.

Pat Flannery wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Thanks again, Pat!

I'm a bit late catching this post, but it's a great suggestion. I'll add that to my repertoire.

And on a happy holiday note, I got my model table set up again. Back on October 5th, my neighbor slammed his SUV into the side of my house -- the wall against which my model table sat. The contractor finished repairing that end of the house last week, and we began moving back into it.

As a plus, the room now has a door, so I can keep the cats off the table and their hair out of everything.

-- CV