Cazzie
SOH-CM-2024
Apologies if this one has already been done.
This is the last of three Fokker D.VIIs flown by Ltn. Franz Büchner, when he was with Jasta 13. As such it bore the unit colors of Olive cowling panels bordered with a thin white stripe and the blue fuselage. Büchner's bold personal insignia of a leonine 'werewolf's head on an Olive panel, and the checkerboard band in the green and white colors of Saxony. Vertical and horizontal tails were painted white. The wings were covered in four-color Lozenge fabric upper and lower, with pale rib stripes. This repaint is for Stuart Green's tried and true Fokker D.VII for FS9 or GW3. The textures may be used for CFS2 also, if you have that installed, you will just have to amend the aircraft.cfg. There are conflicting references as to the landing gear and wing strut color, one shows this in Olive, another in a light gray. In the textures there are one for each, so choose which you prefer. However, whichever one you prefer must be renamed DVII_fuselage, remove the appendage as regards the color).
Franz Büchner was born in Leipzig, 2 January 1898, the son of a wealthy businessman. He joined the German Army in 1914, serving with the 106th Saxon Infantry Regiment at Ypres. At age 16 he went down with typhoid fever late in that year.
In 1915 he served on the Russian Front and again in France in 1916 having been commissioned. Wounded in action on 3 April 1916, he transferred to the German Air Service, becoming a pilot with FFA 270.
Going into single-seaters, he flew with Jasta 9 from March through August 1917, gaining just one victory, then went to Jasta 13. His scoring rate was still low, but his qualities as a leader were recognized for he was appointed Staffelfuhrer on 15 June 1918 with four victories. He went on to win the Iron cross 1st Class, the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Hohenzollern House Order, the Military St. Heinrich's Order (Saxony's highest award), The Saxon Merit Order, 2nd Class with Swords, the Saxon Albert Order 2nd Class with Swords, and finally the Por le Merite, on 25 October 1918.
On 10 October 1918 he collided with one of his pilots, both successfully taking to their parachutes. By war's end his score had leapt to 40, having scored 17 victories in September 1918.
After the war he flew during the post-war revolution, serving with the Reichwehr, but was killed in action during a recce mission near his hometown of Leipzig, on 18 March 1920, aged 22. Like Rudolf Berthold, he too had survived the war only to be killed by his own countrymen. He survived Berthold by three days.
With green struts (screens from GW3):
With gray struts (screens from FS9):
Caz
This is the last of three Fokker D.VIIs flown by Ltn. Franz Büchner, when he was with Jasta 13. As such it bore the unit colors of Olive cowling panels bordered with a thin white stripe and the blue fuselage. Büchner's bold personal insignia of a leonine 'werewolf's head on an Olive panel, and the checkerboard band in the green and white colors of Saxony. Vertical and horizontal tails were painted white. The wings were covered in four-color Lozenge fabric upper and lower, with pale rib stripes. This repaint is for Stuart Green's tried and true Fokker D.VII for FS9 or GW3. The textures may be used for CFS2 also, if you have that installed, you will just have to amend the aircraft.cfg. There are conflicting references as to the landing gear and wing strut color, one shows this in Olive, another in a light gray. In the textures there are one for each, so choose which you prefer. However, whichever one you prefer must be renamed DVII_fuselage, remove the appendage as regards the color).
Franz Büchner was born in Leipzig, 2 January 1898, the son of a wealthy businessman. He joined the German Army in 1914, serving with the 106th Saxon Infantry Regiment at Ypres. At age 16 he went down with typhoid fever late in that year.
In 1915 he served on the Russian Front and again in France in 1916 having been commissioned. Wounded in action on 3 April 1916, he transferred to the German Air Service, becoming a pilot with FFA 270.
Going into single-seaters, he flew with Jasta 9 from March through August 1917, gaining just one victory, then went to Jasta 13. His scoring rate was still low, but his qualities as a leader were recognized for he was appointed Staffelfuhrer on 15 June 1918 with four victories. He went on to win the Iron cross 1st Class, the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Hohenzollern House Order, the Military St. Heinrich's Order (Saxony's highest award), The Saxon Merit Order, 2nd Class with Swords, the Saxon Albert Order 2nd Class with Swords, and finally the Por le Merite, on 25 October 1918.
On 10 October 1918 he collided with one of his pilots, both successfully taking to their parachutes. By war's end his score had leapt to 40, having scored 17 victories in September 1918.
After the war he flew during the post-war revolution, serving with the Reichwehr, but was killed in action during a recce mission near his hometown of Leipzig, on 18 March 1920, aged 22. Like Rudolf Berthold, he too had survived the war only to be killed by his own countrymen. He survived Berthold by three days.
With green struts (screens from GW3):
With gray struts (screens from FS9):
Caz
