No, this is the other G-10, WNr. 611943 (Planes of Fame museum). The ex-Bulgarian/Yugoslavian G-10 is WNr.610937.
Thump's Gulf Coast Museum Tour
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Oh great! That is so good to see. Really original condition, I would say the most original late version left in the World.
Are there more pics with the cowlings off?
Eng
I'm attaching the article from the previously mentioned Eduard-magazine. The full edition is free for download here.
Cheers!
Warspite63
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That's a fantastic museum ... I was there a few years back. The hanging planes reminded me of my bedroom when I was a kid. My planes were a bit smaller though.....
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Thank You for posting the links to the Eduard article on the Bf 109 G-10. I last saw that aircraft in the flesh in 1987, unfortunately, not with the cowlings open.
The time-capsule of that aircraft is incredible, mainly due to the way it has not been badly "restored", and we have the previous owners like Ed Maloney to thank for that!
It is unfortunate that there are not even more detailed shots of the engine, but it is quite good. With more knowledge, the photographer would have been able to get much
more information. Things to note in the shots are, that is a DB 605 D engine, but from the pics shown we cannot tell which model.
The Supercharger intake is missing the rubber flange that sealed the intake ram-air flowing in from the cowling scoop.
The top MG 131 guns are removed.
The prop Spinner is remodelled or a replacement, it has not got the correct front aperture for the 30mm MK 108 blast tube and, the rear edge of the spinner seems to be
riveted around the edge in a non-standard way.
Overall though, the best there is of the late 605D engined survivors, AFAIK.
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So the Chief of the Procrastination Department earned a healthy bonus for outstanding performance, but here we are and onto the second stop -- the National Naval Aviation Museum located aboard NAS Pensacola, FL. It's a very impressive institution and I loved being so close to an active flightline again.
Anyway, once we get in the building, I'm going to organize these photos by era. Heading in, we see these static displays:
And the first era is of course the early years, before aircraft carriers. The Museum has a surprising amount of displays devoted to this, I thought.
Curtiss A1 Triad:
Curtiss flying boat NC-4, the actual plane which made the first crossing of the Atlantic (with stops, of course):
Curtiss Jenny in cutaway. This was a really cool feature on a couple of the displays, and in this case the very basic construction techniques are made plain:
Fokker DVII. Sorry for the poor quality, it was originally somewhat blurred and I had to sharpen it:
One of the Fokker's antagonists, a Nieuport 28 (again, not the best picture):
... and another, the Sopwith Camel:
That's all for the moment, next up will be Golden Age birds.
Anyway, once we get in the building, I'm going to organize these photos by era. Heading in, we see these static displays:
And the first era is of course the early years, before aircraft carriers. The Museum has a surprising amount of displays devoted to this, I thought.
Curtiss A1 Triad:
Curtiss flying boat NC-4, the actual plane which made the first crossing of the Atlantic (with stops, of course):
Curtiss Jenny in cutaway. This was a really cool feature on a couple of the displays, and in this case the very basic construction techniques are made plain:
Fokker DVII. Sorry for the poor quality, it was originally somewhat blurred and I had to sharpen it:
One of the Fokker's antagonists, a Nieuport 28 (again, not the best picture):
... and another, the Sopwith Camel:
That's all for the moment, next up will be Golden Age birds.
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Lovely.
MiTasol
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Ireland. Especially Cork but the whole except Northern Ireland.
Streets where the street signs name the businesses but not the street name.
Streets on council boundaries where the numbers on one side go 1, 2, 3, etc from one end and 1, 2, 3, etc from the other end and the two sides of the street have a slightly different name.
Street signs where they are on the side you can not see from the one way street you are driving on.
Streets shaped like a tree branch with the numbers diverging up and down the branches.
etc.
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Good shots!
Warspite63
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Magnificent! Thanks for posting!
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Street names change on square intersections. Street signs are unclear to the point that you think a left-hand turn is okay when it isn't. Tripartite intersections where street-names diverge wildly. Coming to an intersection, the street goes straight, but the street-name takes a 90-degree turn.
Throw in a bunch of drunk touristas walking down the street, and a tram system built in the 20s crossing your path.
MiTasol
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I think this is the street I got lost on -- the numbering started at #1 in the bottom left, #2 was next on the same side of the road, when you get to the first corner the numbers continue up the side street, then back down to the intersection, then left up the hill etc etc etc.
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A similar occurrence from a 1972 trip to Ottawa to see the Canadian Air museum during the weekend of a Kodak training trip in Rochester, N.Y.
Another Kodak employee, from a far western province, accompanied me as he had never seen his capitol city.
The French influence was very familiar to me being from cajun country south Louisiana. The same English accents and phrasing..
We found a motel for the night, with a French name now forgotten, and headed off for room 22. This motel had two stories in front with an L shaped section of rooms off the lower original section. I followed my Canadian buddy up the stairs to the second foor over the office (original section of the motel) and found the numbers ran from 13 through21. My buddy, confused, stopped in his tracks. I said, "Wait a minute. If I was down home in cajun country, the numbers would run 1 to 12 for the original ground floor, When he had enough money to add more rooms, he built the second floor continuing the numbers up stairs 13 through 21." Sure enough, the third addition was the L shaped ground level at right angles to the rest of the motel. Rooms 22 through 30.
Another Kodak employee, from a far western province, accompanied me as he had never seen his capitol city.
The French influence was very familiar to me being from cajun country south Louisiana. The same English accents and phrasing..
We found a motel for the night, with a French name now forgotten, and headed off for room 22. This motel had two stories in front with an L shaped section of rooms off the lower original section. I followed my Canadian buddy up the stairs to the second foor over the office (original section of the motel) and found the numbers ran from 13 through21. My buddy, confused, stopped in his tracks. I said, "Wait a minute. If I was down home in cajun country, the numbers would run 1 to 12 for the original ground floor, When he had enough money to add more rooms, he built the second floor continuing the numbers up stairs 13 through 21." Sure enough, the third addition was the L shaped ground level at right angles to the rest of the motel. Rooms 22 through 30.
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Still at Pensacola. This place has so many fascinating a/c, and in such great shape. I got there at 9 AM on a Friday morning, and was there until 1 PM. Moving on to the interwar and WWII era ...
The first airplane to complete a crossing of the Atlantic, in 1919. This is the actual Curtiss NC-4, not a replica:
A couple of trainers, the first a "Yellow Peril" N3N, the second an SNJ Texan. Notice the F4F in the flashy interwar paint job (as an aside, this place has a ton of Wildcats):
Note the color guard in the lower left corner of this next pic. The Blue Angel atrium, where I was when I took this pic, was hosting a graduation ceremony for pilots who'd just earned their wings. Watching them pin 'em on was really cool.
... and then some of the a/c the trained pilots would fly once they fleeted up.
Curtiss Hawk:
Grumman F3F:
Boeing F4B:
And these planes would have recovered aboard USS Langley:
More to come ...
The first airplane to complete a crossing of the Atlantic, in 1919. This is the actual Curtiss NC-4, not a replica:
A couple of trainers, the first a "Yellow Peril" N3N, the second an SNJ Texan. Notice the F4F in the flashy interwar paint job (as an aside, this place has a ton of Wildcats):
Note the color guard in the lower left corner of this next pic. The Blue Angel atrium, where I was when I took this pic, was hosting a graduation ceremony for pilots who'd just earned their wings. Watching them pin 'em on was really cool.
... and then some of the a/c the trained pilots would fly once they fleeted up.
Curtiss Hawk:
Grumman F3F:
Boeing F4B:
And these planes would have recovered aboard USS Langley:
More to come ...
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On to WW2.
Two more Wildcats, the first an FM-2, the second an F4F-3:
... which of course Grumman followed with the F6F:
The Hellcat's stable-mate, a birdcage F4U Corsair:
From another angle:
... and then the Iron Works got on designing their replacements, though they arrived too late for the war. F7F, and F8F:
Here's some of the planes that were escorted by the above fighters during the war. SBD:
The same Dauntless from a different angle:
TBM Avenger:
And from another angle:
Two more Wildcats, the first an FM-2, the second an F4F-3:
... which of course Grumman followed with the F6F:
The Hellcat's stable-mate, a birdcage F4U Corsair:
From another angle:
... and then the Iron Works got on designing their replacements, though they arrived too late for the war. F7F, and F8F:
Here's some of the planes that were escorted by the above fighters during the war. SBD:
The same Dauntless from a different angle:
TBM Avenger:
And from another angle:
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Some of the carriers the above planes would've operated from:
USS Hornet CV-8:
USS Intrepid:
USS Langley CVL 27:
Moving right along.
Catalina:
Admiral Nimitz's personal scoot, a PB2Y-5 :
Kawanishi N1K:
Zero:
P-40 in AVG colors:
B-25 done up as Doolittle's Raider:
Me-262 trainer:
... and a group photo:
Next up: the Cold War and modern era.
USS Hornet CV-8:
USS Intrepid:
USS Langley CVL 27:
Moving right along.
Catalina:
Admiral Nimitz's personal scoot, a PB2Y-5 :
Kawanishi N1K:
Zero:
P-40 in AVG colors:
B-25 done up as Doolittle's Raider:
Me-262 trainer:
... and a group photo:
Next up: the Cold War and modern era.
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Oehhh. Tasty
Viking1066
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Gorgeous photos!
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lol, thanks for the kind words, but get thee to some optometry! Too many are blurred, or cut off parts of the planes, etc.
