Cocardes britanniques, la question pas si stupide

[Pink_Tigrou]

Celle qui m'interpelle depuis que je suis tout petit, à savoir : pourquoi sur les appareils britanniques époque WW2/Bataille d'Angleterre les avions avaient une cocarde deux tons sur l'extrados, trois tons sur l'intrados (avec le blanc en plus) et quatre tons sur le fuselage (avec le cercle jaune) ?

"Parce-qu'ils sont Anglais" n'est une réponse acceptée.

[jojo]

"Parce-qu'ils sont Anglais" n'est une réponse acceptée.

C'est pourtant une réponse pertinente

[ClaudeJ]

Celle qui m'interpelle depuis que je suis tout petit, à savoir : pourquoi sur les appareils britanniques époque WW2/Bataille d'Angleterre les avions avaient une cocarde deux tons sur l'extrados, trois tons sur l'intrados (avec le blanc en plus) et quatre tons sur le fuselage (avec le cercle jaune) ?

"Parce-qu'ils sont Anglais" n'est une réponse acceptée.

Sur un autre forum, WP840 a posté la même question que toi:

During WW2 why did RAF fighters have a yellow ring around the red, white and blue roundel on the fuselage? Why also were the roundels on the wings only the standard 3 colour and when did the yellow ring start getting painted thinner?

Et voici ce que Steve Atkin lui répond:

The roundel type III with the thin outer Yellow (and White) rings was put in to widespread use from May 1942 onwards and replaced the earlier type with equally proprtioned rings. It was simply seen as a way of making roundels slightly less conspicuous in the geographical location of action at that time (and also worked for night bombers for obvious reasons). The evolution of roundel design and placement were continuing throughout the war against a background of changing tactics and geographical location of action. The basic need for national identification markings was seen by all sides as an essential requirement but this was moderated by the need for camouflage concealament. The two requirements were, to varying degrees, in constant confliction with each other, however there are some fairly consistant patterns, for example the upper wing roundels of RAF fighters based in Northern Europe remained constantly what was reffered to later as Type B (Red and Blue only) throughout the war up until early 1945. This was due to the need for concealement of aircraft on the ground where it was felt that Red and Blue alone would offer the best compromise of clarrity of national identity without being too bright and attracting undue attention. It was not until 2nd TAF in Europe in early 1945 felt confident enough to change to a more readily identifiable Type III (C1) upper wing roundel as by then it was felt there was more advantage to ensuring friendly aircraft could identify their own when on the ground at forward operating bases (and also of course due to the Luftwaffes diminishing offensive ability at that time).

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... ost1365998


Parmi bien d'autres, cette page présente plus de détails:
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/ ... nd-Up.aspx

J'y ai appris que la cocarde britannique est inspirée par la cocarde tricolore des soldats napoléoniens, comme quoi...

Autres ressources:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/theroyala ... oundel.cfm
http://www.renohighrollers.com/images/B ... undels.pdf

En espérant que çà te soit utile!

[Pink_Tigrou]

C'est un beau bordel, mais c'est instructif, merci.