The author suggests a plausible yet unproven explanation of this subdued white fuselage cross outline could be the result of fuselage sanding during a keying process, whereby the high-gloss factory finish was scuffed to promote paint adhesion for a planned-to-be-applied „wash“ of red paint over the entire fuselage that—because of his wounding 6 July—never came. This speculation contends the sanding could have reduced the paint depth of the white outline— which also may have received more sanding than the overall fuselage—and allowed the warm-straw-colored wood underneath to become subtly visible. This is just one of many unproven speculations.