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Korvessa
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The Russian Red Baron

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in 1942 Nordlicht, one of the Soviet planes is bright red.
Is there an significance to that?
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Tassadar
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Re: The Russian Red Baron

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I believe it refers to Aleksey Vasilyevich Alelyukhin. Apparently an anecdote states it was painted like this by a drunk mechanic:

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/ind ... 2-red-one/
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Korvessa
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Re: The Russian Red Baron

Post by Korvessa »

Well that's pretty wild.

He didn't seem to have any special characteristics
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