"ArVa" no.arva.spam_at_no_os.fr wrote in message ...
"Vicente Vazquez" a écrit dans le message de
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Pierre Clostermann mentions, in his book "The Great Circus", he saw a
dogfight between a Spitfire of his squadron and an FW 190A-6 piloted
by a certain "Major von Graf", nicknamed "Donald Duck" by the Allies.
The Fw was, according to his book, painted in overall bright yellow
scheme and, curiously enough, I couldn't find any other reference to
that specific aircraft, supposedly from JG.2, neither about this
"Major Von Graf". I guess such an exotic aircraft would be mentioned
at least in one or other book, specially considering it was flown by
the CO of the Jg.2. Does anyone have any reference material, picture
or whatever about this plane?

Tks in advance,

Vicente

Von Graff's Fw 190 was G3+SL and was overall yellow. Here is a Luftwaffe NAA 64 DR+XD trainer in overall RLM 04 yellow:
http://www.luftwaffe-experten.co.uk/natrainers.html

Go down the page to the photo.

Rob


About the yellow FW190 :
http://modelarchives.free.fr/photoscopes/Fw190jaunes_P/

It's in French, who needs to know such an outdated language nowadays?... :-)

Basically, the author of the article's conclusion is that there was no plane
*entirely* yellow, as no pictures or documents have ever proved its
existence. Though, a certain Hermann Graf's plane (not "Von Graf" as in
Clostermann's book), based in Cazaux near Bordeaux, had a yellow nose with a
red tulip and a yellow-lined red lightning on the fuselage. According to the
author, the confusion of combat, the use of colorfull german planes, some
white and black pictures of unicolored german high altitude
fighters/prototypes/training planes (actually painted in yellowish green or
blue) and the use of yellow training planes on the Allies' side are a
possible explanation for the myth.


Regards,
ArVa