Hi Konstantin,
Excuse me if I took a long time to answer.
I respectfully disagree with your interpretation of the painting scheme....
no problem, it's interesting
you asked question, you got answers and then you ignore the answers!
this sentence has not its place here! you know enough me to know that I always take in consideration your informations , you are not fair...
I thought we have agreed that de la Poype's Yak-1 was filmed in late April 1943 at the Mosalsk airfield. You still have June 1943 for date and Khationky as the location!
No you told that, it's diferent!
I looked to the ORB book abd those picture coul have been done in two moment.
in th 12th of april 7 yak-7 came to Mosalk airfield for a mision comanded by Tulasne. the other officier was from the 18 GvIAP.
In the begining of June, arriving in Kationky, the GC.3 normandie share the airfield with its squadron brother, the 18 GvIAP.
But we know too reading the de la Poype memories that Marcelin, the de la Poype mecanic painted the shark mouth just before the 3rd of May mision...
It's a winter scene! Yak-7 is on the patch of snow!!!
looking the moovie you gave me I'm not sure at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqqJhpzHsqwI founded your interpratation with an winter camouflage interesting, but after quite a long time thinking about it, I 'm not convinced it was as you say.
Anyway thanks a lot to give your opinion, I need it, to go on!
Xan