[Fritz Kempf]

A. The black one with the white crosses Dr.I is freshly painted.

I would agree with this.

B. While the black on the second triplane is older and poorer quality on the left side (where the exhaust exited.)

All triplanes exit exhaust out the same side and they all have white on that side, so this would seem to be the only example of a lazy good for nothing mechanic? What mechanic would let there leaders plane get that dirty? I would be interested in what evidence backs up this statement.

D. 470/17 was not used by Jacobs until about June 1918.

Why wouldn’t this account for a freshly painted 470/17 sitting on the flight line with unfinished crosses?

Fritz Kempf; 450/17 did not have the thin borders

If the white cross only plane is 450/17 than once the paint job was finished wouldn’t it have had thin borders? Also the white cross only plane has the fuselage cross way forward of it normal position, are there other pictures of this paint job once it was finished?

But as a young man we find that in his war diary he took the barograph reading charts for his flight and glued them to next to the relavent diary entry. What we did not know until I researched the diary for its publication.....

I am familiar with this practice of his; so when is this diary coming out, I have been hearing about it for while now and would love to read it?

Thanks for your information on this, I know that as old collectors die that new information becomes available, and you can’t put to much trust in older books.

Josef scott
The first picture is the one I mentioned earlier, its just missing the Gray Hound.


Ed