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Dan_San_Abbott · 7 July 2008, 04:18 PM

Ronny Bar:
In my opinion, I would say no! You can't assume all the manufactures immediately would stop using brown paint. There would be transition period,
1. To buy the lilac paint. Find out when they will receive it. It was not like runnying over to Home Depot and picking up a couple of gallon cans of lilac paint. The paint factory would need time to make it and then ship it to the airplane factory. Time.
2. Determine what serial number would be the first to have lilac instead of of the brown. Then they would have to negoiate the cost with Idflieg.
3. Idflieg may of had the current contracts completed as is.
4. I think most current orders were completed with the brown paint.
5. The Albatros D.V order issued in April 1917 for 200 Alb.D.V 1000/17 to 1199/17 were delivered in dark green and lilac. The tiome was such that Albatros Werke was able to make the change to dark green and lilac from the very beginning without any brown paint orders already made.
Another example. Idflieg advised the manufacturers about the availbility of the five color fabric in April 1917. The first fighter that was covered with the five color fabric was the Alb.D.V order issued in May 1917 for 400 machines, serial numbers D.1962/17 to D.2361/17. From D.1962/17 to D.22376/17 were painted with dark green and lilac, the printed fabric did not appear on a Alb.D.V, until serial number D.2277/17. From what I have been able to determine all the Alb.D.V machines from D.2277/17 to D.2361/17were covered five color fabric. Albatros did not start covering with printed fabric until after mid July 1917 roughly two months after receipt of the contract. This situation was more likely a problem of scheduling with the Augsburg Kattunfabrik. I would assume Augsburg Kattunfabrik had a large backlog of printed cloth orders after the all the manufacturers were advised that all aircraft for the front were to be covered with printed fabric. The Alb.D.V planes with printed fabric did not appear at the Front until some time in early August 1917.

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Dan_San_Abbott Forum Ace of Aces Contributor Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Ceres, California Posts: 7,093	The answert is?? Ronny Bar: In my opinion, I would say no! You can't assume all the manufactures immediately would stop using brown paint. There would be transition period, 1. To buy the lilac paint. Find out when they will receive it. It was not like runnying over to Home Depot and picking up a couple of gallon cans of lilac paint. The paint factory would need time to make it and then ship it to the airplane factory. Time. 2. Determine what serial number would be the first to have lilac instead of of the brown. Then they would have to negoiate the cost with Idflieg. 3. Idflieg may of had the current contracts completed as is. 4. I think most current orders were completed with the brown paint. 5. The Albatros D.V order issued in April 1917 for 200 Alb.D.V 1000/17 to 1199/17 were delivered in dark green and lilac. The tiome was such that Albatros Werke was able to make the change to dark green and lilac from the very beginning without any brown paint orders already made. Another example. Idflieg advised the manufacturers about the availbility of the five color fabric in April 1917. The first fighter that was covered with the five color fabric was the Alb.D.V order issued in May 1917 for 400 machines, serial numbers D.1962/17 to D.2361/17. From D.1962/17 to D.22376/17 were painted with dark green and lilac, the printed fabric did not appear on a Alb.D.V, until serial number D.2277/17. From what I have been able to determine all the Alb.D.V machines from D.2277/17 to D.2361/17were covered five color fabric. Albatros did not start covering with printed fabric until after mid July 1917 roughly two months after receipt of the contract. This situation was more likely a problem of scheduling with the Augsburg Kattunfabrik. I would assume Augsburg Kattunfabrik had a large backlog of printed cloth orders after the all the manufacturers were advised that all aircraft for the front were to be covered with printed fabric. The Alb.D.V planes with printed fabric did not appear at the Front until some time in early August 1917.