Talk:Dornier Do 27

Assessment
An infobox and some inline citations would make this one B-class. --Colputt 22:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Grzimek's "dazzle camouflage"
The caption of the picture of Dr. Bernhard Grzimek's Do-27 refers to the paint pattern as "dazzle camouflage". However, the intention was quite different. Zoologist Grzimek and his son Michael had obtained the aircraft for the purpose of studying the movements of animals -- particularly herd animals like gnus and zebras -- in the Serengeti National Park, Tanganyika, in 1957. The reason for the black-and-white pattern was described by Dr. Grzimek himself as follows: "...the whole body was painted in black and white stripes, like a zebra. Perhaps [the Dornier] would not look so strange and mechanical to the animals in Serengeti who are used to zebras, but the real reason was to make the small machine easily recognizable from the air in case of accidents." (Grzimek: Serengeti Shall Not Die, 1964 p. 27). Thus, the function of the pattern was to improve visibility, not to obscure it. Death Bredon (talk) 15:17, 19 May 2023 (UTC)