Help needed regarding Ernst Udet and his Fokker D.VII

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Hello everyone ... Question about udet’s scheme. Ive seen photo’s of the plane but no evidence of the Red/White stripes. Ive also seen at least three profiles including the one at WNW.

     No one seems to have any consensus as to straight m/diagonal stripes on the upper wings ? One profile shows the stripes on upper lower of the top wing, complete lozenge lower wing. Another shows striped only top of the top wing with lozenge bottom of upper wing, lower wing is lozenge both sides. A third shows stripes on top of top wing and bottom of lower wing, with lozenge in the insides of the wings ? WNW Show only lozenge no red stripes at all ?  Are any correct ? 

 

Dennis

[Jure Miljevic]

Hello Dennis

Udet flew several Fokkers D.VII, two or three of them were marked Lo! and at least one of them painted with stripes on wings and Du doch nicht! on elevators. Also, there are photos of his aircraft in existence, including at least one showing the striped one, but even so it is difficult to determine complete paint scheme of any of them. There was an article on this topic, titled I believe ˝The importance of being Ernst's˝, published once although I do not remember when or where. Cheers

Jure

P.S.: Found it! The importance of being Erni's by Dave Roberts, published in Fokker D.VII - Anthology 2 book. There is a transcript of this book on the web here, but unfortunately without photos.

Edited November 6, 2018 by Jure Miljevic
P.S. added