Most Strangest Markings of the 1914-1918 War?

LedZepplane · 6 March 2006, 04:23 PM

While we’re e all on the subject of polls about favorite fighters/bombers, pilots and such, I’m interested to know what you folks would consider to be the most strangest and creakiest personal marking to appear on an aircraft during W.W.I …It can be from any nation.

Danny

rabu · 6 March 2006, 11:20 PM

Well, this is the most unusual I have seen for WWI, I think it's from the U.S.A.

LedZepplane · 7 March 2006, 12:16 AM

Yeah, but snoops mount didn't have roundels.

Danny

rabu · 7 March 2006, 10:55 AM

Hay! Schultz drew that historic pix of Snoop

TomVrille · 7 March 2006, 11:12 AM

It's not particularly strange, but the most enduring personal marking from WW1 must be

Francesco Baracca's prancing horse, which has graced every Ferrari to come off the assembly line for 70-some years.

Troy Raines · 7 March 2006, 01:46 PM

I kinda like Jacob's Jasta 7 all black Dr.I with all the oversize and odd shaped white cross outlines and the "God of the North Wind" on the fuselage. The two Jasta 5 Albatros D.V/Va's marked with bones that carried the experimental Siemens machines guns were cool too, although it's the guns that make them look sinister I guess. I like the Marine Jasta Fokker DVII that had the black heart motif, but then I'm a Joan Jett fan so maybe I shouldn't count that one.

LedZepplane · 7 March 2006, 05:32 PM

Hey, Troy:
I’m a big Grateful Dead fan, maybe that’s why I'm partial to skull motifs;their real intimidating and just down right creepy.

Danny

GrzeM · 8 March 2006, 10:33 AM

Brumowski's Albatros D.III Oeffeag, all red, with whole surfaces covered with tiny yellow sworls and with black&white skull marking.
Really strange and cool.

Also all those printed sworls on Austrian Albatros:

G.

drIace · 8 March 2006, 12:58 PM

For "strange" -- how 'bout Capt Harry S. Gwinne of 3rd Aerial Instruction Center, the "Flying Fish" (Nieuport 24bis) at Issoudin, France, 1918

Creepy- C. Nungesser's Nieuports-- skull & crossbones and coffin on black heart

Troy Raines · 8 March 2006, 01:12 PM

Ledzepplane

, I too am a "Dead Head" and skulls/bones do show up a bit don't they. Agree on the intimidation factor. Hey, how about Nungesser's personal marking, that is creepy enough.

GrzeM, Austrian sworl camo is way cool. I'm not that up on it, was it painted on or a print like the German pattern fabrics? And I was totally unaware that the Brumowski bird had yellow sworls over the basic red. Guess I need to go back and read what I have on the AH aircraft.