Markings of Voss' famous opponents

[Ahnab]

Woa, YOU wrote that article tcrean7828!?

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by Ahnab

Woa, YOU wrote that article tcrean7828!?

Mate,
In a word - yes. But wait until my book comes out, it has a lot of good, knuckle biting, bleary-eyed, mind boggling info that is sure to please at least some of you.

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tom

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by jastaflieger

se5: you should refer to the book High in the Empty Sky by Alex Revell, his authoritative and definitive history of 56 sqdn, the markings at the time of the Voss fight were acutally a dumbell-like marking, different colors for the different flights.

Tripe cowling: actually Voss's markings were not a caricature of the Kaiser, but instead were based on kites from his family's time in China.
Jim

Mate,
I thought it was Japan, at least that is what I have always read.

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tom

[tengew]

tom has the date been set for the book ...............need book noowwwwww..
seriously cant wait till it comes out

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by tengew

tom has the date been set for the book ...............need book noowwwwww..
seriously cant wait till it comes out

Mate:
send pm and we can talk about what you need.

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tom

[R Gannon]

For the interested.

The great photo in post #13 of 56 Sqn SE's contains one marked 'V' - which is a bit of an old wives tale related to Harlyford's seminal 'Von Richthofen and the Flying Circus' which showed a photo of a 'V' marked C5430 with the incorrect caption that the pilot in photo was Capt Mayberry - in reality the phot was circa Apr-May 18 and of Capt Jarvis. But it became fashionable to figure 'V' marked SE in painting's and even History channel special's of Voss' last fight.

Merry Christmas to All

Russ

[Ahnab]

Wow tcrean7828, can't wait for the book! So when's it coming out? Btw, does anyone have any references or pictures or descriptions of what the tracers looked like back then? Like I had posted earlier, only "The Flyboys" has shown 'em and I just want to be sure that they looked like the smokey vapor trails as depicted in the film.

[SCMc]

Hi Russ,

Do you know the correct markings for Mayberry's SE? If you don't know, perhaps we could get Alex Revell to help out.

Steve

P.S. There might be a reason why the planes in post #13 are marked the same as the planes on the history channel.

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by SCMc

Hi Russ,

Do you know the correct markings for Mayberry's SE? If you don't know, perhaps we could get Alex Revell to help out.

Steve

P.S. There might be a reason why the planes in post #13 are marked the same as the planes on the history channel.

Mate,
Maybery was in SE5a B1, coded “K”, this info comes straight from the source and his files = Alex Revell.

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tom

[Tim West]

Hi,

Just a response to Mayberry's plane on Dogfights...Ooops I had him as "V".....actually I think I have a copy of the photo mentioned. The one thing about the HC shows.....they dont have a huge staff of fact checkers...lol, I was the fact checker....with a lot of help from this forum, I did my best

The biggest problem is time. I had about a week or so to research and submit a profile pack for the whole episode. Then a week or 2 for each segment I worked on. So at one point you just have to run with what you've got.

I think the series did a dandy job =P