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Originally Posted by Dan_San_Abbott
Langdon:
I did not make an exact claim of the date of acceptance of either Fok.DR.I 477/17 and Fok.DR.I 521/17. In my statement of acceptance dates, I said,"on or about." That Langdon is far from precise!
Inasmuch as the photograph has been identified by Acer, who some think is a reliable accurate source of information, the discussion of the how the wing was painted is moot. As is most of your posts, you make inaccurate statement(s) without a basis of fact. A close examination of the leading of the cropped leading edge photo, counting from the near wing tip the dark leading edge stops at the fourth rib, and resumes at the nineth rib. And it is the same on the other end. Your guessing that the upper wing was painted for the Commander is not correct either, however this is moot! This is another of those cases.
It appears to me that you are not well informed about wartime production in Germany.
Blue skies,
Dan-San
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Dan-San,
On or about a specified date seems fairly exact to me, frankly you could be out by weeks but you don't mention that.
I find it unusual that you are now finding a painted leading edge after arguing for so long that there was no paint. Now you are finding different shades, colours or that it isn't continuous, possibly you could apply your black and white colour chart and come up with a candy strip?
Where I have made statements of fact I have provided a reference where it is speculation I make that quite clear, this is entirely different to your approach where you provide sweeping statements presented as fact when in reality they are speculation devoid of fact, the only thing that supports you position is that 477/17 is mentioned in combat reports which you believe are bogus, I really wonder how you would feel about the combat reports if they supported your position.
The moot point about a commanders aircraft having painted upper wings was made by yourself elsewhere recently when discussing 103/17 but I thought it a reasonable one at the time to apply here (there really don't seem to be many solid painted upper wings in the LeChelle line-up, at least not until after the cross changes).
I have mentioned above that I'm not knowledgeable concerning wartime aircraft production, it is not a subject that really interests me but I believe the figures of Imrie's that I provided are correct and the acceptance data I copied from the Fokker Heritage Trust seem to confirm his data.
RAGIII,
It is a waste of time providing answers to Dan-San, he will ignore them.
Langdon