Markings for hypersonic stealth aircraft? Yes or No?

[Rick Lowe]

I's the nearest thing there is to one....................

That we know of... 

[sandiego89]

Despite joncarrfarrleys lack of support I still vote markings.  It makes the model much more interestng and could perhaps be more possible with modern materials. If somone could make a reliable hypersonic jet, they may be able to bake markings into the airframe, or have a suitable paint.   The SR-71 was quite fast as was the X-15 and the space shuttle operated in very high heat-all had markings- although the fastest x-15 flight was with full ablative coating. 

[zenrat]

Space shuttle is a good point.  Did they have any markings on the underside where they got hottest?
Any pics of one after it has landed so we can see how the markings fared in the heat of re-entry?

[sandiego89]

Or the X-37. She spent many months in orbit, did a re-entry, and looked pretty good on rollout, still with paint and markings intact.

Here is one picture right after landing: http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image-of-X-37-checks.jpg

The belly and highest heat areas of the shuttle were black thermal tiles without markings, but i believe each tile had small part/tile numbers visible.

[KJ_Lesnick]

Honestly with a hypersonic plane there is a part of me that would be inclined to make this thing glow so bright by putting lights on it in a weird dizzying pattern so as to make it look like a UFO.