[WWI] AEG C.IV

[Paul Thompson]

    Any opinions on the photo at this link?
http://ipms.freeforums.org/post2616.html#p2616

    The poster is asking , among other things, what colour the top wings
should be. He thinks CDL, I think not, unless they recovered the wings (not
impossible, because they seem to have done that to the rudder, to remove the
cross, although it could be paint. Why I don't think CDL is because Fokker
built machines, from my reading of the Datafile, had typical Fokker streaky
camo as on the fuselage here, if early, and then got disruptive camo if
later production. And this is a machine from September 1917. I think any
camo pattern on the lower wing has been washed out by the same glare you see
on the top of the fuelage.

    The other unexplained bit is the light area at the bottom of the
fuselage sides behind the lower wing - either it's CDL and the fuselage
streaks are painted over a darker colour, or the lower fuselage has been
painted a light colour. Messily.



    Any ideas, please?


Paul.
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