[EveningStar]

"No German flew an all-red triplane except the Red Baron, and it was red with a white cowling," he grumbled. "And even then, Richthofen mostly flew planes that weren't all-red."

That was an intentional inaccuracy. They wanted to make it easy for viewers to tell the German planes from the French planes.

[Finny]

That's understandable, I guess, but kinda too bad. World War I fighter planes were so colorful and beautiful, really, in all the ways they were painted, and as usual, the Germans took the whole concept COMPLETELY over the top.

[PzLdr]

That was easy enough to do. Most of Jasta 1's pilots had warplanes painted in individual bright color schemes. [Goering's was all white]. While the boys in Richtofen's Staffel all had a touch of red in their color scheme, only Richtofen used an almost totally red aircraft.

And he didn't start flying a triplane until sometime in 1917 or early 1918. He got a lot of kills in an ALBATROS.

At least this explains the two sequences in the TV ad that show a Red Triplane getting shot all to hell. Richtofen was only shot down twice. And the plane came down largely intact [it actually landed in the shoot down he died in] both times.