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Angiolillo,
N500 was the first prototype, fitted with a single gun, and was regularly flown by Dallas amongst others during the 2nd half of 1916. It started off in cleared doped linen finish and metamorphosed into a sequence of slightly different brown finishes - sometimes the serial colour changed, sometimes the fuselage cockade dissapeared!!
The twin gun triplanes that served on the Western front were:
N533 flown mostly by Collishaw, black cowl and metal panels, black wheel covers and black fin. Large letter "C" behind the fuselage cockade and on the starboard horizontal stabilizer, and "Black Maria" stencilled in white beneath the cockpit.
N534 flown by Maynard, and once by Dallas. White/red/white band aft of the fuselage cockade, red fin with a white "f" on it, and two longitudinal blue stripes on the horizontal stabilizer.
N536 flown usually by "Nick" Carter, possibly had red cowl, wheel covers, and fin. Almost certainly had a letter on the fuselage behind the cockade, but no idea what it was.
You have a problem with Little's triplane, it was brown body and wings (like all the others), natural aluminium cowl and metal panels, and the word "Blymp" in large white script below the cockpit. A thin white/thick red/thin white band around the fuselage aft of the cockade. Serial N5493.
The sword came later after Little stopped flying this machine, can't remeber who the pilot was off the top of my head, probably FCdr Arnold. At this stage the fin was painted white with a red heart.
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