{"id":1073,"date":"2026-06-10T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:41:59","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\" \/><div id=\"jig1\" class=\"justified-image-grid jig-04be5e1541d57d12c824de0807b53cba jig-preset-global jig-source-wp-gallery\"><div class=\"jig-clearfix\"><\/div><noscript id=\"jig1-html\" class=\"justified-image-grid-html\" data-lazy-src=\"skiplazyload\" data-src=\"skipunveillazyload\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4709.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_4709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fconcreteswan.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F05%2FIMG_4709.jpeg&amp;h=320&amp;q=90&amp;f=.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_4709\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">IMG_4709<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4743.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_4743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fconcreteswan.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F05%2FIMG_4743.jpeg&amp;h=320&amp;q=90&amp;f=.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_4743\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">IMG_4743<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4744.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_4744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fconcreteswan.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F05%2FIMG_4744.jpeg&amp;h=320&amp;q=90&amp;f=.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_4744\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">IMG_4744<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4746.jpeg\" title=\"IMG_4746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fconcreteswan.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F05%2FIMG_4746.jpeg&amp;h=320&amp;q=90&amp;f=.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_4746\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">IMG_4746<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/noscript><\/div><\/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":4,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/concreteswan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1141"}],"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}]}}