Martinsyde G100 7472

This profile is taken from a photo in the Australian War Memorial Collection of Martinsyde 7472 at Fara, Palestine. Note the thin blue and red circles on the roundal, roundal sizes differed significantly from aircraft to aircraft. The doping on the fuselage appears to be PC12 doping. PC12 was the most protective of the pigments the British came up with to protect the linen skinning of aircraft. PC10 a darker deeper greeny/brown colour was used in preference to PC12 in Europe due to PC10 providing a better camouflage colour to the French terrain underneath the pilots. In Palestine a higher wearing coating may have been a priority and some aircraft in the theatre have PC12 dopings. The wings, elevator and wheel covers appear to be Clear Doped Linen.

This profile is taken from a photo which appears in Windsock Datafile No.70 of Martinsyde 7472 after being recaptured from the Turkish Army. Lieutenant N. Steele was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on the 20th of April 1917. Lieutenant Steele was part of a five aircraft operation of two Martinsydes and three BE aircraft led by Captain R. Williams to bomb assembling Turkish Cavalry at Hareira.Steele was wounded and forced to land, dying of his wounds soon after. The profile shows the aircraft at recapture bearing the Ottoman Air Service markings of the black rectangle.