As mentioned before, old JJ flew quite a number of aircraft prior to the Triplane. A quote from SIM’S Book “
Fighter Tactics And Strategy 1914-1970.” Taken in an interview by the author in the Munich recounts:
“I went to the front in 1914 and stayed there for the rest of the war. I first flew the Dorner, a very primitive monoplane in 1911. I left flying school at Hangelar, near Bonn, to join the army in 1914. I flew as an observer, a bomber pilot and artillery spotter, the Aviatik, LVE, the Rumpler and a few other planes. Once I flew all the way to Paris in 1915.”
He did not mention it above, but here is JJ on a very cold and wet day, his expression: usually cheery even in war is not so full of mirth that day, maybe the heavy toll was starting to mount on him and he realized that being an all weather pilot in a less than all weather aircraft was not all it was craked up to be
"the LVE typeo is SIMS, I assum its an LVG." mfv