Wulffo,
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ball shoots down  lvr.... all clear
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I'm sorry, that's not clear to me at all. The only two things that are clear to me is that LVR was shot down - by a triplane according to LVR's own testimony, and that Ball crashed and died.
I'll say this once more, and I expect it will be completely ignored once again, but Naval 1 had a flight of Sopwith Triplanes in the right area at the right time. The New Zealander, Thomas Gray Culling reported a long drawn out "running fight" with an Albatros scout, no claim, but it was getting dark and he broke off without seeing what became of the Albatros.
Now, I fail to understand why we all assume that LVR couldn't tell the difference between a Sopwith Triplane and an SE5, and, why we all ignore Culling's report. By "we", I of course exclude myself.
Culling was a skilled and aggressive pilot, almost certainly a match for LVR at that time of his carreer.
Now, I'm not saying it
was Culling and it
wasn't Ball, I'm saying that the evidence, such as it is, favours Culling rather more than it does Ball.
Mike