[WWI] Hannover Cl.V references

[Ray B]

I dont know why Voss's aircraft is such a mystery. There were at least 5 eye witness's from 56 Squadron who stated it was silver, pale blue, streaked green. As for the Cowling it had a face painted on it and was yellow... nope green Nope silver. No wonder eye witness's are so lousy.  
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Shane Weier <bristolf2b at hotmail.com>
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Sent: Monday, January 1, 2007 9:19:58 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Hannover Cl.V references

Nigel quotes:

>I was fortunate enough to get the rather weighty tome "Schlacht-flieger" 
>for
>Christmas. This charts the development of German ground support operations
>in WWI and includes a wealth of detail on German two-seat aircraft. The 
>book
>is massive and is by Rick Duiven & Dan-San Abbott.

Thanks again to Nigel and Tom for their info from this book, and to Karen 
for her assistance offlist.

I'm very interested in this particular passage....

>The fuselage, fin, undercarriage,
>cabane struts, and interplane "I" struts were stained with purple, brown,
>dark green, and dark blue and finished with a waterproofing coat."

This sounds remarkably like the recently proposed camo scheme on Fokker 
D.VIII wings.

DSA will no doubt eventually discover that all other aircraft were painted 
in the same fashion, thereby saving argumenst about the shade of PC.10 and 
whether Voss' aircraft had a yellow or green cowling  ;-)

Shane

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