Slitherine

in 1942 Nordlicht, one of the Soviet planes is bright red.
Is there an significance to that?

I believe it refers to Aleksey Vasilyevich Alelyukhin. Apparently an anecdote states it was painted like this by a drunk mechanic:

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/ind ... 2-red-one/

Well that's pretty wild.

He didn't seem to have any special characteristics