Aircraft Identification Thread IV

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Yes it is the Arsenal-Delanne 10. It was captured by the Germans and so unfortunately this French plane is shown in German markings.



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This Arsenal-Delanne is quite interesting:
When the fighter was finished, France was run over by the Germans. The fighter got in the hands of the Germans. Delanne pretended to collaborate; but he did all (to the extreme) to prevent the Germans from using his ideas. The Resistance work of Maurice Delanne is worth a book or ...a movie. He started with altering the technical data so the design became worthless. But there were still the two prototypes. The Germans could use them to regain the correct data. Delanne knew ... he had to destroy them! During a bomb raid, he jumped in the trainer and "tried to taxi it to safety", but ... in fact he rammed the fighter. It happened so hard, both caught fire and Delanne barely could escape. His plan to destroy the prototypes had worked. But the Germans did not totally trust his excuse of "being a bad pilot" and sentenced him to the prison of Siegburg, near Bonn.

When the Allied freed the prisoners, Delanne was reduced to a human wreck of only 36 kg (80 lbs)! He seemed to have been useless during that time. Wrong! Even in prison he was a enemy of the Germans. He sabotages the machines, which produced soldier socks, car engines and hand grenades. I pity the soldiers who used those socks, cars and especially those who used the hand grenades.

http://users.skynet.be/nestofdragons/weird_08_delanne.htm#historyfrench
http://www.tgplanes.com/Public/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=142૷
 
That B-17 kinda looks like an Italian aircraft with that 5th engine....

And yes thats a G.50B, The unarmed two-seat trainer version of the G.50...
 
Its a G.50bis A/N, or at least I think it is. The two-seat attacker version.



Should be fairly easy. Anyone got any other pics of this?
 
Look at the landing gear covers though, they go all the way down to the wheel itself. On the F.4 they only went about halfway down I think...
 
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