Checkerboard

[Flying Trucker]

Goodly morning all...

Old girl is off to church to get saved and I am free for a hour or so...

Was at the bugsmasher field yesterday and this topic came up with some great ideas amongs some old retired rocking chair flying geezers.

[Webb]

Wish that I was on ole Rocky Top,
Down in the Tennessee hills ...



Rocky Top, you'll always be,
Home sweet home to me.
Good ole Rocky Top,
Rocky Top Tennessee.

[Hagar]

Not entirely sure when or where the international orange and white checkerboard design did come from.

Perhaps this international orange and white checkerboard design started somewhere in Europe or part of the United Kingdom.

I don't recall seeing anything painted like this in the UK. Obstructions like buildings & chimneys over a certain height have to be be fitted with warning lights.

[Flying Trucker]

Goodly morning all and a cold wet day it is here...

Thanks Webb and Doug for the comments.

The first link is a link to a Transport Canada Information site.
It shows just what Doug mentioned that tall structures are lighted and gives information on the type of lighting to be used.
It also shows that tall structures like towers around airports or seaplane bases are painted as well as lighted.

The international orange and white checkerboard symbol has been around these parts for as long as I have been aviating and that is more than six decades...

Sure would like to find more info on it.   

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[patchz]

I remember seeing a few roof tops in the Purina theme back in the sixties in the hills of South Carolina Doug. And of course, Meridian NAS had a lot of checkerboard when I went to see the Blue Angels.

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks Larry...

The Purina company logo I believe is a red and white checkerboard design and I think the aids to navigation are done in International Orange and White checkerboard.

Like most "Windsocks" are International Orange.

http://www.airportwindsocks.com/windsoc ... pv4l2pkbq0

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[Hagar]

Like most "Windsocks" are International Orange.

http://www.airportwindsocks.com/windsoc ... pv4l2pkbq0

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Windsocks used to be yellow.

I just discovered that International Orange is the name of the colour shade, like Navy Blue. Never heard it called that before. http://goldengatebridge.org/research/facts.php#PaintedIntnlOrange

When I was in town today I spotted the jib of a construction crane is painted orange & white. First time I've noticed it.

[Flying Trucker]

Good afternoon all...

RE: Windsock and colour code

Part way down page gives colour code.

http://www.adwareflags.com/index.php?op ... &Itemid=21

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[C]

I don't recall seeing anything painted like this in the UK. Obstructions like buildings & chimneys over a certain height have to be be fitted with warning lights.

There are a few:

http://www.century20war.co.uk/page22.html

In my experience, in the UK it tends to be confined to vehicles and structures which are closer to active runways - namely runway caravans (the place where historically a Cpl sits and fires a red verey if your wheels aren't down!) and navigational/instrument approach aid huts and buildings. Air Trg Corps glider control caravans tend to have them too.

[Hagar]

I don't recall seeing anything painted like this in the UK. Obstructions like buildings & chimneys over a certain height have to be be fitted with warning lights.

There are a few:

http://www.century20war.co.uk/page22.html

In my experience, in the UK it tends to be confined to vehicles and structures which are closer to active runways - namely runway caravans (the place where historically a Cpl sits and fires a red verey if your wheels aren't down!) and navigational/instrument approach aid huts and buildings. Air Trg Corps glider control caravans tend to have them too.

I should have said outside airfield boundaries. Even for things like control caravans the orange & white check is comparatively new in this country. When I did my ATC gliding courses most things on the airfield were either painted RAF blue/grey or yellow. The vehicles were blue/grey & the winches were yellow. The gliders were silver with yellow training bands.

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks "C" for the link...great site and good read...

Thanks Doug, I remember most Royal Canadian Air Force vehicles being that blue/grey colour.  (There was a name for that colour but can not remember it).

Shall keep searching for information on the international orange and white checkerboard markings....

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[patchz]

[quote]Thanks "C" for the link...great site and good read...

Thanks Doug, I remember most Royal Canadian Air Force vehicles being that blue/grey colour.

[Steve M]

Another site for info I found.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/r ... 9-2447.htm



" 3.1.1 Standard Colours of Paint

Alternate sections of international orange (hereafter to be referred to as "orange") and white paint provide maximum visibility of an obstruction by contrast of colours.

Subject to section 3.1.2, where alternate sections of orange and white paint markings are required under these standards, the colours of paint markings should conform with the United States Federal Standard FED-STD-595, namely:

(a) Orange no. 12197; and

(b) White no. 17875.  "

[Hagar]

Here's the FAA regulations effective August 1, 2000. http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/systemops/fs/alaskan/towers/obstruction/media/AC70_7460_1K.pdf

UK regulations for obstructions in the vicinity of licensed aerodromes come under Section 47 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982. http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Primary&PageNumber=46&NavFrom=2&parentActiveTextDocId=447366&ActiveTextDocId=447431&filesize=14949

[Flying Trucker]

That is another good site Steve...thanks...

Thanks for the links Doug...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug