italian Albatros D. V

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Italy declares in 1915 to France the war!
Macchi builds the albatross D. V in licence. 
How such an albatross could look.


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[jcf]

Perhaps they build the improved Austrian Oeffag version of the D.III, as the D.V wasn't developed until the spring of 1917?

The italian tri-color would look good with the funky A-H sworl cammo (as seen on this model of a post WWI Polish aircraft): 

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The bottom in green-white-red,
As an emblem of white crosses (House of Savoy)

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Blason_duche_fr_Savoie.svg&filetimestamp=20070706115428


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[raafif]

why not use the "standard" WW1 Italian scheme ?
Ansaldo SVA.5 & .9's had a darkish red wood-grain finish, aluminium sheet-metal cowls, cream (natural linnen?) wings & tails with the Italian tri-colours.  Top outer wings had wide red & green ends covering the ailerons, while the underside of top & bottom wings had narrower red / green tips.  Maybe add late WW2 "postage-stamp"  markings as well ?

[jcf]

Make it the mount of Mr Ferrari (the gent who later formed the motorcar company).  Here's a pic of his Spad-VII under restoration for a museum.

Ferrari was never a fighter pilot, the cavallino rampante was the emblem of WWI Italian ace Count Francesco Baracca who died in 1917. Baracca's mother asked Ferrrari to use the emblem on his racing cars after seeing him win a race in 1923. Ferrari's version of the horse (quite different from Baracca's) has been used as the emblem of Scuderia Ferrari since 1929.

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Italian tri-colours is slightly confusable with French tri-colours.
This is a problem.



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