7car7, that is from the back cover of Squadron/Signal "S.E.5a in Action" (#69 in the series).


Don if you want some more color...although white isn't much of a color...that book has a profile with similar markings as yours...but the radiator, wheels, and rear stabilizer (including the landing skid) are white. But it shows the wing mounted Lewis gun...the Vickers was mounted on/in the fuselage.

Oops, just noticed that you painted your stab blue...

Wheelus AB alumni
 

Hey, 50+... We may have been at Wheelus AB about the same time. I was a tower controller there mid '67 to Dec. '68. I recall one F-4 that augered in at the El Qwuotia gunnery range from target fixation. I think only the EWO got out of that one. Also had a F-100D from the 301 TFW out of Spain land gear-up, try to go around with afterburner but wound up sliding into his #2 man at the far end of the runway. (Both pilots survived). We had to recover remaining airborne range flights on the parallel taxiway with no arresting barriers.

The dart drops next to the runway were sometimes a bit dicey, too. Had one that clipped the comm antennas on the control tower and one that hit the equipment trailer at the GCA unit. Saw many that came back as clean as they left and just a few as you described; almost unrecognizable. Once they lost aerodynamic stability they were often just dumped in the Med.

Is it just me, or did you also have a hard time figuring out how Friday's "Quiet Hour" (1PM-3PM) was two hours long? LOL

Gae'falec, sadeki! ~KT

Here ya go Don...

I should have said wing mounted Lewis. The artical I read about the gun not mounted was because they had not arrived in time for the first flight. They were mounted later.

Just a guess but the color on the radiator, wheels, stabilizer, and landing skid maybe flight colors. One flight was blue, another white, maybe more colors too. When I painted the radiator and wheels the blue is lighter than the covering I use on the stabilzer and skid. I have some lighter blue so I may change the covering and the diamond.

I have some pictures of plane #19 in light blue same as the picture you posted. The picture of plane #11 I have is only a pencel drawing so no color. Now I suppose someone will find a color picture of #11 and it will be RED. LOL

Add a few more items and it will be ready to crash, oops, fly.

degreen, it's looking very cool. Completely different plane!

Started tackling the new wings on my SE5a also - I screwed up some of the aileron covering, when shrinking, so I cut out a section of the old wings' covering. Surprised to see, there was actually quite a lot of damage to those wings from hitting the goal post - most of the ribs are broken along the wood grain. It's all fixable, but wow, it took a beating.

I'm SLOWLY making progress on my Albatros, go HERE to check out the latest...

teaser \/\/\/

wow... I like it

You do realize Degreen that the ONLY person that has to like your plane is YOU right? You just make it however you want and go have fun with it!! I've been thinking about doing one of the D7s the way it would have been had I flown in WWI. Steve

WWI Ace, I agree. Paint it like YOU like it. I have a Corvette and I put racing stripes on it, a "no no" in the Corvette cliques. I like it. I drive it. They can bite me.

Alot of classic Chevys came with rally stripes factory applied!! Makes me start wishing I had my '71 Cuda back!! Steve

Vette racing stripe
 

Good for you Cookie! :cool::D My sentiments exactly, although I would have been a little more specific about naming the area to bite! :eek::D;) I think they get the message anyway! ;) Marty

Well I can't afford a Viper, but I sure do like the racing stripes on the Viper. So, I'll have to settle for stripes on a Corvette. ;)

Stripes are great! I have a Dodge Magnum, and some of my buddies have put on stripes. SOME tend to turn their noses up at the thought of a Dodge having Chevy stripes, or Mustang stripes, but who cares! Do what makes you happy... While you can...

I agree.

Albatros Interplane Struts
 

So, does anyone happen to know, what the interplane struts are made of on a real Albatros?

They seem to almost always be painted gray, or maybe black or red depending on the rest of the scheme, but I've never seen them just "wood". If they're metal, I'd understand that, but they sure look like they're made of wood.

I do know that the cabanes are metal tubing.

I found this photo doing an image search.

Yep, the alatros are very similar to those, how they're tapered at the ends, unlike the cabanes that are the same diameter all the way thru.

I am pretty sure that the interplane struts as well as the cabanes and undercarraige struts were all made of metal.

Go to theaerodrome.com you may have to register to see the photos. There is a ton of info on just about anything WWI. Look for a thread called "Albatros D II / D III news"...this guy is building full size replicas...good stuff!

Linky
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/re...-iii-news.html

Pic...it's a DIII, but should be the same...

I bought a Dodge Magnum for my wife. It's the Inferno Red. It has the high ouput V6 in it. No stripes but still a good car!! Steve

Stripes
 

I've got a pair of striped drawers. :eek: Does that count??? ????:D Martin

Only if you hang them from your antenna.

hahahahhahhahahhahhahhahha...................... :q