..Erich,

..proof -other than the 'certificate' - and I'll take it all back ..but really the all-red Ta is the kind of story the vets tend to come up with in their late befuddled years when they realise that a researcher is interested in them....just look at what Cescotti has to say about JG 300 too in that story - accurate it is not

....so why all-red then ..? ..why not just the undersurfaces ..at least there is a precedent for that ...I have a similar problem with the artworks of Dortenmann's Dora...more fantasy..there exist just two very partial photos of his machine when it first arrived in the unit ..but to base three or four pages of profiles on what the guy wrote in his diary - well, makes for a colourful book, granted, but give the artist an inch and he'll take a mile ...guaranteed..more urban legends created in the process...