Zinc Chromate

I am surprised Vought used a salmon color. In my experience with military aircraft, hydrualic fluid has a redish color that would make it difficult to spot on a salmon background. In other words, it would make it difficult to spot hydraulic fluid leaks.

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Arved

I am surprised Vought used a salmon color. In my experience with military aircraft, hydrualic fluid has a redish color that would make it difficult to spot on a salmon background. In other words, it would make it difficult to spot hydraulic fluid leaks.

 

Arved - I agree it would.

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Arved

I am surprised Vought used a salmon color. In my experience with military aircraft, hydrualic fluid has a redish color that would make it difficult to spot on a salmon background. In other words, it would make it difficult to spot hydraulic fluid leaks.

 

And could well be the reason why they didn't use it for long.

In the seventies I worked for a major airframe company.  They received a big batch of zinc chromate spray cans, and receiving inspection bounced the batch because the (green) color was slightly out of spec.  They sold the batch to a local surplus store.

I was building a homebuilt (1:1 scale) at the time, so I joined several of my buddies, rushing to the store to buy a dozen cans at a really cheap price!