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Old 6th January 2003 | 07:43
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Timothy

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I believe that there is evidence that leaving the radome black (ie unpainted) improves radar performance.

Indeed the aircraft I flew with radar (HS125) had a little caption "do not paint" on the radome. However, in it's case the radome was white anyway.

I may, of course be wrong!

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