Miscellaneous WW1 items

[Des]

Gunther sent me a collection of photos from the Grahame-White-Factory, an interesting collection of WW1 articles, many thanks to Gunther.

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[ALBATROS1234]

interesting,mostly the red baron fabric. for some reason i assumed that they doped 425/17 red at the factory because its always pictured with the serial # stencils. this implies that the plane was doped red in the field . or maybe mvr went to the factory and picked out a new airframe that he like,perhaps even test flying to see how she handles,then he requests fokker dope her red.in this case the stencils make sense. who knows though?

[Ernie]

Very interesting pictures, Des. Thank you for posting.
I thought MvR's Triplane was painted red in the factory,
but maybe not...

Cheers,
Ernie

[WarrenD]

Ernie, I think it was, but they may have taken one off of the line that had already had a finish, and painted it as such. Then again, this may not be 425.

In all, thanks so much for posting these!

Warren

[GHE]

Messieurs !
One must also note that those high scoring pilots often had several machines. The Luftfahrtmuseum Berlin showed one Red Baron Triplane before WW2; it vanished after WW2.

In the books I never found well researched facts on where those colourfull markings were painted on but I think it is rather unlikely that it was done at the factories.

In the German Army there was a system of parks for refurbishing and in-deep repair jobs and in the field there were workshops for the equipment: tanks, blacksmiths, aircraft, trucks, cars,
rolling stock, locomotives etc. and therefore I think it was done in the field.

kind regards, Gunther

[mike in calif]

A similar system was in place in WW2.