Recent content by russhcastle

Hi All, Can anyone help identify these markings. There are 6 lines of text, port side only I think, I need to know what the wording is, the font style, and the size of the lettering. Thanks for having a look.

Very observent, however the canopy you can see is from Slingsby Gull 4 we were working on at the time! (Also not original) The glider does not have the original canopy, however I have aquired a damaged French built Nord 2000 (1947 works number 92) from which I am utilising various parts...

Hi, Thanks for the interest, it is indeed the same aircraft. When I have any interesting pictures to show I'll post them, in the mean time this is how the fuselage looks today. Please advise on the German ETL, whatever it is, if it relates to this glider, I'm interested!

Hi, Thanks for the information. I presume you got most of it from the excellent book War Prizes by Phil Butler. Just to update you, I now own this glider and it having an extensive restoration back to flying condition. The intention is to finish it in the original Kuftwaffe colours and...

Hi all, Just joined the group, as it seems to be a bottomless well of knowledge, I thought I'd tap into it. I am restoring to flying condition an Olympia Meise glider. This was built in 1943 by the Ferdinand Schmetz factory in Herzogenrath and was a high performance aircraft for it's time. It...