If you were a WWI ace...

If you were a WWI ace and had the opportunity to decorate your plane, what would you do? I would have a black FOK DVII with a golden sun on each side of the fusilage. And it would say

either "you wish" or "not for long" in german on my elevators in white paint.

Someone tell me what "not for long" translates into german please.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE. I finally get to go home from work. Accursed place that it is.

I would have a red Fokker Dr.1 with white wings + tail.

I would fly a white SSW D4 with a Steelers emblem on only one side. Under the cockpit it would read: Get you next year.

A Nieuport 28 - white with thin blue pinstripes over all with interlocking N.Y. in six positions !
No name of course (ya' gotta be a yankee fan to get that one !)

When I joined Marine Jasta VI, I flew a hand-me-down Albatros D.V which was adorned with the silver and black lion from my family crest. But that machine was rather harshly treated by some unfriendly swine flying Sopwiths, and there was no time for the rather ornate artwork to be duplicated on the replacement aircraft.
About the time we received D-VIIs, our jasta fuhrer standardized markings. In keeping with traditional MFJ colors, we had yellow noses and black fuselages, the wings remaining lozenge camouflage. As an opera lover, he decreed that each aircraft would bear the name of one of Wagner's valkyries, his being "Brunhilde".
BORING!
Therefore, when he was wounded and I ascended from deputy fuhrer to CO, I changed the names to the more meaningful Nordic equivalents. Mine was "Warrior" while my wingman flew "Axe Time." My deputy chose "Mist" and others were "Might," "Spear Bearer," "Shrieking," and "Wrecker of Plans," etc. All rendered boldly in yellow Gothic script. Quite dramatic: there was no mistaking us, even from a fair distance.

a blue SPAD with an arrow pointing forward on one wing and "Navy" on the sides in yellow and lots of little german flags just under the cockpit

A Camel in good old PC-10.(p.s. mike- with the steelers emblem...would you want "I said HEADS" painted prominently?? maybe a makeshift 'jutting chin' on the cowl??...I too suffer with the black + gold this year. AARGH.)

Oops, I meant Mark, not Mike . Sorry.

Vickers: "Not for long" is in german "nicht für lange".
I would paint my Fokker DR.1 or D.VII one half red and the other half black. Chris

[mike_baram]

Lessee....a Sopwith Snipe, fuselage and upper surfaces of the wings camouflage (tan and green), bottom of wings and fuselage azure (sounds more European than "sky blue"), and on the elevator the German inscription (in red Gothic lettering) "Lecht meine ausch, Fritz".