Originally Posted by
ex82watcher
I was struck (well repelled actually) by the awful turquoise colour in the cockpit of the TU144,it made my eyes hurt.When I sat in the cockpit of a friend's Mig21 a few years ago,it was the same colour,so maybe it's standard for aircraft built in the USSR.
you will see that colour in many aircraft. In WW2 a B29 landed in Russia. Stalin ordered that they copy it exactly. They did, including the colour of the inside. A second landed, different colour but orders were ordered. A third had half and half but . . .
Maybe that was the colour in that B29.