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[Lucky13]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Lucky13]

 

[NVSMITH]

-Maybe it's just me but I saw this photo, simply captioned as a P-38 Lightning but I think there might be more to the story. Yes, no, maybe??

 

[cammerjeff]

That is the P-38 known as the swordfish mod, to test Laminar flow wing profiles, but I always suspected they tested more than that with this A/C

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000539853/

 

[Snautzer01]

That is the P-38 known as the swordfish mod, to test Laminar flow wing profiles, but I always suspected they tested more than that with this A/C

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000539853/

eBay: Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Yaw meter Swordfish Connie https://www.ebay.com/itm/204078197726?hash=item2f84022bde:g:Bk8AAOSwje9hFMTAhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/204078197726?hash=item2f84022bde:g:Bk8AAOSwje9hFMTA

ww2aircraft.net

 

[Lucky13]

 

[SaparotRob]

Wow! I get nosebleeds standing on my tippy toes.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MIflyer]

"I was just flying along minding my own business when this pasture jumped up and hit me."

I think this is Switzerland?

 

[Wurger]

"I was just flying along minding my own business when this pasture jumped up and hit me."

I think this is Switzerland?

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Bf 109E-1 (W.Nr. 3367) 'Red 14' of 2./JG52, which crash-landed in a wheatfield at Mays Farm, Selmeston, near Lewes in Sussex, 12 August 1940. Its pilot, Unteroffizier Leo Zaunbrecher, was captured.

the source: II. Gruppe Jagdgeschwader 52 - II./JG52

 

[MIflyer]

Notice that the wing guns are missing. No doubt the local children pilfered them to set up a private AAA site.

I did read a letter that said a couple of kids stole a Browning from a bomber wreck and then a belt of ammo from a fighter crash and tried shooting at a 109 that flew over.

 

[Airframes]

No, it's the "E-1" variant, which had 7.92mm machine guns in the wings, not the protruding barrels of 20mm cannon associated with the "E-3" and "E-4" variants.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Glider]

No, it's the "E-1" variant, which had 7.92mm machine guns in the wings, not the protruding barrels of 20mm cannon associated with the "E-3" and "E-4" variants.

What I find interesting, is that the holes in the fuselage don't look like they are from 0.303 guns, they look a lot like 20mm holes.