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For the record, the caption is incorrect. If this installation really is 5 inches shorter, that's 12.5cm not 2.5cm. Alternatively, if it was 2.5cm shorter, that equates to saving just one inch. I say this just in case anybody refers to these dimensions in their own learned article or book.

WoW! Thank you so much. This is much more than I ever imagined and had yet found on the web. Your link is solid. Thanks.

Excellent drawings and information. Thank you so much for linking me to the earlier thread and that incredible project book on these gliders. They look quite crude to my untutored eyes but I guess I've become accustomed to fully-enclosed post war designs. What you have provided is a great...

I am writing a factual book that includes a section set in 1930s Germany. This is when one of its characters acquires flying skills by initially joining the Deutsches Jungvolk. The reason behind my later question is simply to add detail and to help readers visualise how this was achieved...

You guys are amazing!

If anybody is interested in how some ME262s were fitted with their Mittelwerk-built Jumo B4 engines, I have now found the source of my previous post: "The completed aircraft were supposed to be flown out from the nearby Nordhausen airfield. Sawatzki planned to employ in the new factory 8,000...

I believe I once read that some of the Junkers engines built by the Mittelwerk factory were taken to Nordhausen airfield (only 4 to 5 miles distant) to be fitted to newly produced Me262s.

Whilst talk of Peenemünde-West is interesting for me, I am well aware that this is only half of the linkage I originally raised. Did an ME262 ever land at Peenemünde West airfield? Was any of the Me 262's development undertaken at Peenemünde-West? Nobody has pointed to a published source or...

Of course! It's the German affinity of creating extra long words and then shortening them to an abbreviation that's fooling me. Not that I think Luftwaffe is a long word. As I get older, I mak morr mistales to! As for the boundary of the airfield... I don't rely on Botho Stüwe for all data...

The Wehrmacht's weapons test centre at Kummersdorf was also relocated to Peenemunde in May 1937.

Thank you for referring to Max Mayer's book, one that had escaped my previous researches. Generally speaking, I usually turn to German sources to learn about a German topic but this book may transcend this by being written in English by German sources. I have ordered a copy. It is interesting...

I am wrong and you are right about the V1. This accounts for the proximity of the Fi 103 test ramp at the extreme north of the Peenemünde peninsular adjacent to Peenemünde West. I have a natural interest in technical things but I don't consider myself as an expert when it comes to aircraft. I...

Well-spotted. Curiously and in agreement with your contention, Peenemünde West tested the air-launched Hs293 glide bomb from beneath the wings of an He 111. For the record, in his excellent book Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945, author Heinz J Nowarra lists the following aircraft types as...

Thanks for your help and I agree with your analysis though I hadn't sliced Peenemünde West's projects in such a clear-cut motive-power-generated way. This may have been due to physical aspects of the airfield facilities - runway surface and length for example. I'm no expert. There were a number...

Snowygrouch - Thanks for responding and I understand your dilemma. Actually, Kaaden per se, does not figure in the original question I asked which were solely about the links (if any) between Peenemünde-West and the ME262. Kaaden appeared only when I was asked the reason behind my questions...