How often have we hijacked other WOFFers threads, until even the "hijacker's new thread" got lost behind another hijacker's net? And whilst Ariadne's famous thread led Theseus out of the Minotaur's labyrinth, our threads within threads are rather confusing the original one - they are the labyrinth to get lost in - happily!
So I thought: why not have a thread where hijacking is allowed? Where nothing is "off-topic"? THE one thread where you can go from "Ariadne" to "aircraft" in one minute?
The "quote" function should still make it possible to keep a minimum order. And the gathering con-fusion may kickstart new thought and ideas by the dozen?
Who wants to start?
Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club) Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
Always interesting to speculate about the colours of the WW1 planes - and also frustrating when we cannot find proof and evidence.
In your question you asked what the inner colour of the chevron might have been - it looks quite bright, so maybe not black, nor red. Light blue is quite possible. For the hood I'd go for factory-light-grey, or also light blue.
But: some day Bruno Schmäling will (hopefully) publish his book on Jasta 5, and will contain a lot of first hand colour info on the craft of that unit. Schmäling had said already, that there will be a lot of disappointment among the "colour guessers" so far - even the Jasta 5 green might have been different to what was agreed on.
Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club) Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016.
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
Argghhh!!! You KNEW this would hit me! Teaser! Neaner! Monster! Brute!!! (Where's my coffee - give me strength...!) What an ugly exception! But then it never saw service - so I guess I must not call it an "Albatros"!
Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club) Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
Yes, indeed! You're right - they were still in the baby-years of aviation, and hadn't yet fully understood the balance between lift and forward energy, I guess.
Fokker's designer Reinhold Platz would have prefered a biplane instead of the Dr.I tripe. He knew, the additional wing would cause much more drag, which would have needed a stronger engine to compensate for. After the Dr.I they constructed the Fokker D.VI, which was also very agile, had a great lift and climb, and was even faster than the Fokker D.VII at low altitude. But the D.VII was easy to build and fly, and the time of the rotaries was over in Germany; the Germans didn't have access to castor oil anymore; the lubricant of the rotaries.
Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016.
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
