some flyboys help?

Question

just got done watching fly boys with a group of friends me and one friend got into a heated debate about the black German plane he said there was no plane that was all black the only one that ever painted his plain was the red boron now i could have sworn that
Hermann Göring did paint his plane black and was known to strafe downed pilots in ww1 because i know he told his German pilots to shoot pilots in parachutes in ww2 was there another pilot that flew a black plane

Answer 1

Early in WWI, particularly with the Germans, there wasn't a great deal of uniformity of plane color. It was largely left up to the preference of the pilot.

Answer 2

There were several, including Black Flight, A famous fighter squadron of the RNAS whose planes had black markings and names: Black Prince, Black Death, Black Maria, Black Sheep and Black Roger. They shot down 87 enemies without loss.

In the movie they made the decision to have the German planes all red and black for clarity in the dog fight scenes.

http://www.flyboysmessageboard.com/topic/68

Answer 3

Follow the link

Answer 4

there were black plane(s). Most, however, were not red and the tri-wing did not come out when the movie shows it did.

Ahem, point number two: based on the "phraseology" I don't think you're military. Flyboys is a term of endearment which is only endearing when used by other flyboys or the grunts, squids, and jarheads out there (all terms which non-military should not use as a general custom). If you're not in the military, you call us "Airmen"

Answer 5

That movie is so historically inaccurate that it can only be viewed as entertainment, nothing more.