[Dan_San_Abbott]

Hello Lloyd:
Been awhile since we last communicated. The lower wing cross from Fok.DR.I 425/17 on display in Canberra was not completed. Because it was never completed to the 150mm wide white border gives an identity clue in checking other photographs. Go back and read my analysis in post of 16 June and check the photos yourself. All the photographs of MvR's all red (white rudder) Fok.DR.I taken at LeChelle Airfield from 26 March to 21 April 1918 is not of Fok.DR.I 425/17. Also it is not Fok.DR.I 152/17 because it was removed from service on or about 18 March 1918, and shipped Berlin. The only aircraft it could be is Fok.DR.I 477/17 as I have contended from day one. What this piece of fabric with the incompleted cross modification raises seriious doubt about the MvR combat reports that bothered me also, from day one . The Implication is, in regard to Fok.DR.I 425/17 was it was in the process of being painted for MvR, and the lower wing crosses had not been completely done when he was shot down on 21 April 1918.
1. After the acceptance of Fok.DR.I 425/17 to 19 April 1918, there is no data, information, records, accounting or the whereabouts of Fok.DR.I 425/17 until MvR flew it on 19 April 1918.
2. You have assumed it was at Jage Nr.1, however, that is not a fact, it is an assumption.
3. It is also not known, when Fok.DR.I 425/17 was picked by MvR, if he was the one who selected DR.I 425/17.
4. It is not known when it was painted. The implication is, it was in the process of being painted when he was shot down.
5. The photographh of the incomplete painted cross border confirms without question that the photos taken at LeChelle, of the red DR.I with the V blemish is not Fok.DR.I 425/17.
6. The Fok.with the V Blemish isin fact, Fok.DR.I 477/17.
That is very substantial evidence.
Blue skies Lloyd,
Dan-San