[WWI] The color of Voss's cowl

[Andy Bannister]

Yep, according to Imrie's excellent triplane book, Timm had no recollection
of the cowling ever being yellow, and you'd think he'd remember something
like that since he probably had to take the cowling off almost daily to
maintain that finicky rotary.
This whole yellow cowling thing is Alex Imrie's pet theory and his alone and
he bases it on two dubious suppositions:

1. Voss' family had Japanese business connections and the Voss children were
given Japanese fighting kites that were yellow with a face in white similar
to the one Voss painted on his F.1's cowling
2. Jasta 10's squadron colour was yellow

Imrie fully admits he has not a shred of evidence to support the yellow
cowling theory.
Personally I'm not a believer...

Andy 
 
CEO, Editor in Chief, Choreographer, Teaboy
www.warpedplastic.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org 
> [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Robert Karr
> Sent: 23 August 2008 19:16
> To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [WWI] The color of Voss's cowl
> 
> 
> Hmmmmm..... The mechanic refered to was Karl Timm, who was 
> interviewed by 
> Imrie a thousand years ago. Imrie said Timm said "...the 
> forward part of the 
> fuselage and the engine cowling were a very dark gray, to use 
> Timm's words 
> an "earth gray"...............Herr Timm has no recollection 
> of doing any 
> additional painting....".
> RK, who's opinion of the cowl color depends on the day of the 
> week and the 
> time of day
> www.karrart.com 
> 
>