Evening chaps,
Now for some Bf 109Gs:
Top: Gruppenkommandeur's aircraft II./JG51 Eastern Front, note yellow spinner and beneath the engine. Seems to be an unorthodox camouflage scheme, look at the wings with squiggles of darker colour.
Second: This could be an 'F' rather than a 'G' as I...
The Fairey Battle went on to perform valuable service as a training aircraft. Its stable flying performance, reliability and sturdy construction made it an important and useful aircraft to train fledgling crews.
Yes, the Battle deserves to be preserved.
Probably the ugliest aircraft of all time, ever!
:bazooka: F.F.G Berlin B.9
You know how car designs go rounded then angular?? Well this one falls into the angular design spec.
Jugs with the Jerries.
More Zirkus Rosarius aircraft. Touring the front line western Jagdgeschwader, the unit provided hands on encounters with an enemy aircraft. Bf 109 pilots were over awed by the roomyness of the Jug's vast cockpit compared to their own slim. even cramped, 'office'.
Hawks with the Hun.
Now some Curtiss products in Luftwaffe service curtesy of the French and Norwegian Air Forces. Used by the Germans as advanced fighter trainers the first picture is a Curtiss H75A operated by JFS 1(note the JFS 1 top-hat on a cane insignia) at Werneuchen:
Texans (sic) for the Teutons.
As promised, Allied aircraft in German hands, first up from the North American Company (please note that if the Swastika is not there it's because some politically correct pinko's removed it :rolleyes:):
Yep as far as can be told, an original picture, a Bf 109K-4 in colour taken by a GI at the back-end or after WW2. Amazing picture. Attributed to 9./JG 3.
Flickr Photo Download: WW2 German Plane Wreckage
For a discussion of it go here to the very excellent LEMB site: Identity of this...
Hartmann's G-14 or was it a G-6?? Heck, who knows, only the Lord for certain!
I always find it incredible that so few pictures have emerged of the aircraft of the most successful fighter pilot in history. I keep hoping that eBay would throw something up (just like the recent colour picture of...