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Yes it's an interesting scheme. I doubt if anyone has tried this one before. I imagine MvR would not have been happy with a camouflaged underbelly as many of his claims were probably confirmed from ground observation.
My speculation is that the aircraft arrived as I have described but at sometime after the under surface, wooden wing struts and cross fields were over painted so that the aircraft looked the way the aircraft does in the LeChelle photos, as you know the aircraft then underwent further modifications to its national markings. As I say this is speculation but Allan Toelle's work is fact.
Langdon
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