Hi,
Actually, one of
Josef Mai's D.VIIs is very well recorded, in three photographs. Fokker D VII (OAW) 4598/18 had its fuselage painted in diagonal black and white stripes from nose to tail. The tailplane was further striped in a chevron pattern, the stripes parallel to the leading edge of the tailplane. I do not know if the stripes were continued on the bottom of the fuselage or not. The wings remained in four-color lozenge fabric. Mai attained his 26th and 27th victories in this machine, in late September 1918.You can find a drawing and the photos of this aircraft published in "Over the Front" Vol. 11 No. 3, Autumn 1996; also in the "Fokker D VII Anthology 1" from Ray Rimell's Albatros Productions.
Mai also flew Fokker D VII 595/18 and 848/18, but I've never seen any photos of those aircraft.
In August 1918,
Lothar von Richthofen also flew a D VII (as commander of Jasta 11) which he called his "lovely red bird", but I have no details on precisely how much of the aircraft was red; certainly the nose, wheel covers and struts.
Greg VanWyngarden