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Originally Posted by Dan_San_Abbott
Ladies and Gentlemen:
What you are saying is  ernst Udet went to war flying somebodies elses airplane with their markings on it. Udet was an established Ace of note, and at this time Kirschstein has started climbing the ladder. He was not a Jastaführer at this time. Udet is Ace and a Jastaführer. All you need to do is read Udet's biography and you will find he has a large ego which is characteristic of all fighter pilots. I have never met a shy retiring fighter pilot, have you Taz? The thing I find amazing, it has occured to any of you that he repainted his triplane. He was not going to fly some one elses triplane.
Blue skies,
Dan-San |
Hi Dan-San.
With the greatest respect sir, you seem (to me) to be basing your premise on assumptions and a certain reverse logic.
If you wouldn't mind Clarifying a few points please:
Are you saying that Jasta 4 (being the last Jasta of Jagdeschwader 1 to receive the Fokker D.VII) didn't use "Hand me down" Triplanes from Jasta 6 at all?
Or are you saying that they did receive them, but Udet wouldn't use one of them because he considered it beneath his dignity to be seen flying someone else's cast off?
Have you considered the possibility that Udet might've thought Kirschstein's stripey DR.1 just the (paint) job for a Jasta leader of his standing? At least until Jasta 4 received the D.VII themselves.
Personally, I think if he had as big an ego as you say he did, there's no way he would've allowed any of his men to fly such a strikingly painted plane...It looked so good, he claimed it as his own!
Regards.
Bucky.