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Old 16th May 2007, 08:28
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Re: Fokker for Marie

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I have work of the analogy of the Fokker Dr.I from the same unit flown by Lt. Stark. For his Dr.I is well know that he used some kind of lilac color for the rear fuselage. The color look almost identical and I decide to use this color.
There is one factor which could work against this line of thought: the (tactical) need to quickly identify pilots in the air.

Unit markings were meant to identify the unit, but beside the personal wish to distinguish themselves, personal markings were used to identify the individual pilot in the air.

That doesn't exclude the color, but it does present one (IMHO logical) reason why B&W matching alone might not work.
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