[greenknight]

Thanks petie2nd.

I have an article by Mr. Swearingen, "Reinhold Platz and the D.VIII Reproduction", published in WWI Aero, No. 79, May 1980. This issue has a special focus on the wing of the E.V and D.VIII. Quite a bit of material was presented, but no reference to original colors (unless I've missed something).

So I'd be very interested to hear what your article has. I know I read another article on the Swearingen repro 20-25 years ago. I think it was in "Sport Flying" magazine or something like that, but at this point I can't recall too much of what was in it.

In the same issue of WWI Aero there is an article by Peter Bowers "The Fokker D.VIII Wing". It mentions that the 2 D.VIII's that were tested here in the US were examples built by Fokker in Holland AFTER the war.

Given the solid olive color schemes we see on at least some post-war Dutch D.VII biplanes, and also on American military airplanes of the period, I wonder if these 2 examples ( and maybe others? ) could have left the Dutch factory post-war with solid olive wings.

I guess what I'm ultimately curious about is whether the long accepted representation of the Parasol wing in solid olive came strictly from B&W photo interpretation, or had some other basis.