The Aerodrome Forum - View Single Post

Laserlloyd · 24 June 2009, 10:13 AM

Hans;

That's one of the three photo of this plane taken at LeChelle airfield. All three can be found in A.E. Ferko's book "Richthofen" a Windsock special were he list this as 425/17. The photo name you listed is from Dave Watts site. I have these photos listed from Peter Groze collection as 425/17. Don't let the name on the photo confirm the identity of this as I'm also in fault in my file names with some of my photos, I'm just too lazy to change them.

It was Ferko that said that when he looked at the original plane that he could see the "Fokker DR.I 425/17" on the side of the fuselage.

The other question that all of this is leading to is how many All red Dr.I where there. Evan Dan-San has posted many times saying that there was only one All red Dr.I. From all of this talk here we now have three, 152/17, 477/17 and 425/17.

It is clear that we just don't know and what we're left with is opinion.

Some believe that these photos are of 425/17, some believe that there of 477/17. Until we have better proof of this it is just our opinions and the debate will go on and on and we'll still be at square one in it true identity.

Lloyd..

24 June 2009, 10:13 AM	#42 (permalink)
Laserlloyd Fokker DR.I Top Ace Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indianapolis, IN (USA) Posts: 2,245	Hans; That's one of the three photo of this plane taken at LeChelle airfield. All three can be found in A.E. Ferko's book "Richthofen" a Windsock special were he list this as 425/17. The photo name you listed is from Dave Watts site. I have these photos listed from Peter Groze collection as 425/17. Don't let the name on the photo confirm the identity of this as I'm also in fault in my file names with some of my photos, I'm just too lazy to change them. It was Ferko that said that when he looked at the original plane that he could see the "Fokker DR.I 425/17" on the side of the fuselage. The other question that all of this is leading to is how many All red Dr.I where there. Evan Dan-San has posted many times saying that there was only one All red Dr.I. From all of this talk here we now have three, 152/17, 477/17 and 425/17. It is clear that we just don't know and what we're left with is opinion. Some believe that these photos are of 425/17, some believe that there of 477/17. Until we have better proof of this it is just our opinions and the debate will go on and on and we'll still be at square one in it true identity. Lloyd.. __________________ Fokker Dr.I Photo Web Site At FokkerDr1.com This site is dedicated to document the pictorial history of all 320 Fokker Dr.I's built during World War I and the fighter pilot Manfred Von Richthofen also known as The "Red Baron"