As you probably know, many of the Link Trainers had flag stripes on the rudder. Here is a trainer restored by Ed Link’s folks; Ed donated trainer No. 85 built in 1941 to Melbourne, Florida’s Airport Museum.
After two coats of sealer, a coat of UV protection, and two coats of butyrate white dope, we are finally ready to put the finish color on our C-3 trainer.
We thought picking red would be easy, but there are lots of reds. I asked Rick, which one looked most like American Flag red. Rick is a researcher – he dived in and got this great answer.
In RGB color space, American flag red is hex #b22234; it is composed of 69.8% red, 13.3% green and 20.4% blue. In CMYK color space, it is 0% cyan, 80.9% magenta, 70l/*% yellow and 30.2% black. It has a hue angle of 352.5 degrees, a saturation of 67.9% and a lightness of 41.6%.
We went with Tennessee Red.