CAPTURED AIRCRAFT - ODD PHOTOS

[Crimea_River]

That 410 does have what appear to be aerials but I suspect these are some kind of instrument leads installed by the British for flight testing. Also, the dive brakes are extended (I guess so the Mossie could keep up! ha ha). I've seen the lower picture before but never noticed those aerials. According to Petrick and Stocker's book on the 210//410, this particular aircraft was w/n 10259 of 2/(F)122 and was captured near Naples in November 1943. Pictures of the plane just after its capture show no such items installed.

 

[Njaco]

hmmmm, very unusual.

 

[ccheese]

More on that tri-motor Italian seaplane, the Cant Z-506 here:

CANT Z.506 Airone - YouTube

Here's three flying: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...twIwAg&usg=AFQjCNHasEZpGX5HTEwncl4G2ac-B1PpdQ

There appears to be one in existence in a museum in Rome.

Charles

 

[wulfhound]

Here's what the captured P-39 might have looked like:

 

[wulfhound]

And this is interesting- An F6F-5 captured by the Japanese on Okinawa (possibly):

 

[vikingBerserker]

Does anyone know how many C47/DC2-3's were captured, confiscated or impressed by the Luftwaffe during WWII ? What color were they painted - if repainted at all, and there is one small photo of one C47 (I assume) on the net , are there any more? Thanks. Joe Hueber

I just came across this in Strangers in a Strange Land by Hans-Heiri Stapfer. They were only operated by Lufthansa and were silver with the swastika on a red background on the rudder. General Christiansen used a DC-2 which looks like it was a dark RLM green. Interestingly, once Germany combined the DC-2's DC-3's they captured they became the largest operator of Douglas commercial aircraft outside of the US.

 

[Snautzer01]

The germans captured alot of of the Douglas planes. The Luftwaffe and Deutsche Lufthansa used in total 10 DC2's, captured from Czechoslovakia and Holland.The KLM in the netherlands were "liberated" from them. Christiansen used a DC-2 from the klm

 

[Marauderman26]

Boeing B-17 C/D

KAWASAKI Ki - 61 Swallow

Hello v2!
Any more information on your KI-61 picture? Location etc....
Where did you find it?

THANKS!

 

[chris mcmillin]

They will likely have been real ones (surplus air force stock/reserve unit aircraft), from the cockpit hoods they are late models Spitfires (MKXIV/MKXVIII/MK21/MK22). And as you can see by the wings they are the clipped wing versions (low level).

They're high back and low back MkXVI's, all Merlins. Cool picture.
Chris...

 

[Capt. Vick]

Found at the following (very cool) website: usmilitariaforum.com

 

[N4521U]

Somehow, they.... just.... do not look right!

 

[Gnomey]

Yeah, there is something that just isn't quite right about them in captured colours (no matter what the aircraft).

That being said they still are very interesting shots.

 

[Njaco]

Somehow, they.... just.... do not look right!

How about a captured Spitfire witha DB605 engine!

 

[Airframes]

Now, would that be a Spiterschmitt, or a Messerfire ?!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Be curious to know how it performed.

 

[N4521U]

I worked for a bloke named Schmidt..... so I vote for Spitterschmitt :-/

 

[König2]

Hallo....

One of my favorites

Grüß,

alex

 

[Gnomey]

Interesting shot! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Matt308]

That is just not right... My fave in bad guy colors.

 

[vikingBerserker]

It does look odd!