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Originally posted by Rob_Owens@Mar 3 2004, 11:36 AM
[b] Having taken a closer look a the photo of Stec's machine in "The Fokker D.VIII Profile" it's tantalizing to imagine a color demarcation line on the wing which seems to correspond almost exactly to the one in Dan-San's plan view of the E.V. Perhaps even the "Polish Olive Wing" is someone's extrapolation/imagination?
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Yes Rob I agree with you, the photo at the bottom of page 13 definitely has a dark colour (probably brown) starting half way along the port side span, it also looks as though the starboard side is painted in a similar way. I have a drawing that Dan-San kindly sent me recently, possibly it is the one you have but on Stec's aircraft the outer colour starts approximately two to three rib bays inboard of the aileron rather than at the aileron as shown in Dan-San's drawing, from memory I think the Factory photos I posted at the beginning of this discussion also show the demarcation the way it is on Stec's aircraft.
All olive wings are the product of someones imagination and lack of information, or research, none were ever done that way.
For those people interested in painting their aircraft with the original pigments you will remember the problems we were experiencing with fading due to UV light, well we have conducted tests using UV resistent varnish and they have shown very good results.
Langdon