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Taz · 15 June 2006, 07:28 PM

CW- I took a look at the aircraft on page 35 of Achim's book, and even though the caption says Jasta 11, the two aircraft look to me like the heavily overpainted and much used Dr.Is passed on from JG I to Jasta 5 in May 1917. Really a personal observation.

Balloon_Buster- Jasta 11 used a bunch of red paint on rudders to reduce the white area around the original Dr.I rudder crosses to a white border (5 cm (2" if you hate metric) Dan-San?) until clarification came down from Idflieg that rudders were supposed to be white about the same time, or along with, instructions to go to the first configuration Balkenkreuz markings. All the rudders then were overpainted white to go with the new Balkenkreuz cross (repeating myself with Balkencross cross).

Dan-San- If 152/17 went to Berlin that early, that would make the aircraft in Dave's line-up posts from Alex' Triplane the only all-red Dr.I at Lechelle and either 425/17 or 477/17 depending on whether you believe photo #95 is WN 2103 or WN 2112. Need to have UTD do a high res scan on the original image and see if it is any better than the ones Alex, Peter and I used. I will get Aaron to use some of his image sharpening techniques on my image and see if he can pull out more detail. If we can show for sure the WN is 2103, that will put this to bed forever, right? Everything else then becomes smoke and we can go back to fighting about important stuff like F.I cowling colors and whether 454/17's top wing was thinly overpainted in yellow.

Taz
Terry Phillips

15 June 2006, 07:28 PM	#108 (permalink)
Taz Forum Ace Contributor Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 2,738	CW- I took a look at the aircraft on page 35 of Achim's book, and even though the caption says Jasta 11, the two aircraft look to me like the heavily overpainted and much used Dr.Is passed on from JG I to Jasta 5 in May 1917. Really a personal observation. Balloon_Buster- Jasta 11 used a bunch of red paint on rudders to reduce the white area around the original Dr.I rudder crosses to a white border (5 cm (2" if you hate metric) Dan-San?) until clarification came down from Idflieg that rudders were supposed to be white about the same time, or along with, instructions to go to the first configuration Balkenkreuz markings. All the rudders then were overpainted white to go with the new Balkenkreuz cross (repeating myself with Balkencross cross). Dan-San- If 152/17 went to Berlin that early, that would make the aircraft in Dave's line-up posts from Alex' Triplane the only all-red Dr.I at Lechelle and either 425/17 or 477/17 depending on whether you believe photo #95 is WN 2103 or WN 2112. Need to have UTD do a high res scan on the original image and see if it is any better than the ones Alex, Peter and I used. I will get Aaron to use some of his image sharpening techniques on my image and see if he can pull out more detail. If we can show for sure the WN is 2103, that will put this to bed forever, right? Everything else then becomes smoke and we can go back to fighting about important stuff like F.I cowling colors and whether 454/17's top wing was thinly overpainted in yellow. Taz Terry Phillips Last edited by Taz; 15 June 2006 at 09:39 PM.