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18 January 2009, 12:42 PM
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Barker/Snipe Addendum
Bonjour mes amis!
By chance I came across another depiction of Barker battling in the Snipe. The previous thread on the subject is closed, but after hesitation, I thought to post the image as it may be the only one to include a Fokker Dr.1 ... The painting is by Brian Withams and was displayed at the Guild of Aviation Artists exhibition held in the United Kingdom in 1989.  Salut! Kirk |
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18 January 2009, 01:09 PM
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Not the only one with a Dr.I!
Bonjour Kirk!
Very nice painting! However, it's not the only depiction of the Barker fight to include a Fokker Triplane. I already posted this beautiful cover to Aeromodeller over in the "WWI Aviation Books Cover Art" thread, but it's worth posting again. Besides, I can now correctly cite the artist as Laurie Bagley, as revealed by the very talented Iain Wyllie. Modern purists might nit-pick some details, but it's still a very gripping depiction - and it beat your painting by 31 years! 
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18 January 2009, 01:22 PM
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Greg!
Not a single Fokker Dr.1, but, at least four! hhmm ... perhaps when we can determine what Jasta was using the type in October, 1918 we will finally know what unit Barker was flying against ... Salut! Kirk Last edited by Kirk R. Lowry; 18 January 2009 at 08:11 PM. |
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18 January 2009, 08:53 PM
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Stephen, I think Kirk was speaking with tongue-in-cheek. The artists may have put Triplanes in the pictures, but that doesn't mean they were there...
Greg
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Ok I should have put a smilie at the end of my last post. 
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19 January 2009, 08:00 PM
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I thought it was like 100's of "Fokkers"
 Point being, didn't most german planes get the "Fokker" name.....whether they were or not? Sort of like german planes being tagged "ME" this or that during WWII. I bet they were put there to add pizazz to the covers..or the artist didn't take the time to research the subject... Either way... most readers wouldn't catch the fact that they were DVII's and not DR.Is Last edited by Tim West; 19 January 2009 at 08:04 PM. Reason: why the F not |
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Here's another version of Barker's story. This is from a great series of Sunday newspaper color comic strips by Clayton Knight in the 1930's entitled "Hall of Fame of the Air", supposedly authored by
 Eddie Rickenbacker:
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