ALBATROS B.II

[Flingueur-Phil]

Hello everyone,
I found this "original" decoration of an Albatros B.II on the net.
Info or intox?
Does anyone know this profile?

[Flingueur-Phil]

OUPS,

[ReducedAirFact]

The picture is from the Kenneth Munson series of small books by MacMillan in the 1960s, specifically "World Aircraft -- Bombers, Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft, 1914-1919". But I haven't seen a period photograph that matches that "confetti camouflage", so I'd be cautious. Most aircraft were single-color in the B-class era.

(By the way, I shouldn't sound too dismissive here. Books from Munson, Harleyford, and works like Gray & Thetford were all we had before the days of Flying Machines Press, Windsock Datafiles, Aeronaut, Osprey, etc.)

[Jager]

I can't speak for his aircraft pictures, but I have at least one issue with Munsun's uniform books.
He describes an ensign (colors, flag) for the Hesse Kassel Jaegers when they had none, since at that time they were not formed as a regiment.
This didn't happen until sometime in the 1790s or just over the 1800 mark.

Karl

[Flingueur-Phil]

I found another plane with the same type of camouflage,
A Hansa Brandenburg C.I.


But it is by the same author and taken from the same book.

Is this decoration realistic?
I really want to make them both out of paper!

[flash]

Seems dubious to me, Philippe, as are most artist impressions that we find books.
Looking in a book (windsock datafile13) on the Albatros C.III - 'During 1915 manufacturers were recommended (where possible) to use thin translucent fabric for covering to provide some degree of "sky camouflage". The use of light pigmented dope at this time gave the almost white finish prior to the introduction of camouflage schemes (& printed material)'.
As this is the same era I would say unless you can source a photo &/or better evidence to support it, treat it as fantasy.