{"id":1073,"date":"2026-05-05T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:15:30","slug":"splat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Splat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6048\" height=\"8064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668.jpeg 6048w, https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668-805x1073.jpeg 805w, https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3668-480x640.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6048px) 100vw, 6048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed at the launch point that newbies often get confused by which ident to use on the radio &#8211; whats on the fin or the G-code on the boom, so the current plan is to have Foxtrot Echo X-ray as large and dark as possible on the fin, and the G-code as pale and small as possible. While both are fine, it seems like a good idea to make the choice of one over the other more &#8220;obvious&#8221;, just to reduce hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>The orange splat, is just because I can. The orange as it has been my long term marking colour for all my gear for about 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be replacing the red nose and the red aileron markings will also be removed. Only the fin will have conspicuity colours, as they&#8217;re useful on the ground, but nothing else is required as I won&#8217;t be flying over snow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed at the launch point that newbies often get confused by which ident to use on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"exifize_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}