Radome Question.

Thanks, folks!

I think P-61’s are plexiglass. To hide the contents, they were sandblasted, not painted, to give that translucent finish.

Yes wartime Radome’s were Perspex but a lot thicker than you would find in canopy glazing etc, and as mentioned painted black. By the 50’s it has moved on to a composite sort of sandwich of an early type of fibre glass material.

British H2S radomes were made from perspex IIRC. Four sheets were pasted together and with heatlamps softened and then the sheet formed itself into a female mold.

A fibreglass or plastic substance. Usually unpainted…or painted with a finish that will not interfere with the radar signals.

As a child I recall seeing the weather radomes of parked Globemasters varying in color…black, reddish-black, whiteish-yellow