[WWI] F103/17 "G72" Report on the wreckage

[Douglas Anderson]

Gentlemen, I do apologise, being somewhat busy here I have been lurking. But I do have a question. Where did the story of a yellow cowl and tailplane originate? The reason that I ask is every reference to his aircraft has no mention of this. I am quite happy to accept as factually incorrect, based on what has been said, that the overall colour of his aircraft. But these discussions are the first occasion that I have read of his aircraft having yellow.

ernest thomas <reason108 at hotmail.com> wrote:  Blasphemous Andy says:

>Interesting that they go into a fairly specific description on the
>camoufalge yet there is no mention of a yellow rudder or cowling, which 
>kind
>of suggests to me that they were in one of the camouflage colours in the
>case of the cowling or white/cdl for the rudder. But then perhaps I'm 
>biased
>because I think the whole yellow cowling/rudder thing is complete bollocks
>:-)

I'm not biased either way. And if I was I'd probably be leaning towards 
yellow since I prefer color on my models. But I too find the lack of any 
mention of yellow in this report to add weight to the green cowl theory. 
The report mentions the colors specifically and describes the cowl in some 
detail. I would think if it was yellow, the report would say so.
But all this talk of a yellow rudder is completely new to me. Where did that 
come from?

>I think it more likely the grey was weathered blue, especially since it
>mentions "blue/grey" for the lower surfaces.

The Blue/silver/grey underside question could just be a matter of 
interpretation. On more than one occassion my wife has sent me searching the 
house for the baby's 'pink' blanket, which I will walk past and/or step over 
repeatedly because, imo, the blanket is RED, and I'm looking for pink.
E.

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