Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1

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Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1

Post by K4KittyCrew »

Hi folks,

Thought we'd start off with a challenge. Aircraft can be any type of 'kite' that flew in WW2 (1939 - 45) from any relevant country. The challenge is open to all members, bar none.

Please list the the -1 - Aircraft type
2 - Variant type
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I believe that it is the FW 189 offset cockpit reconnaisance a/c.

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I'd suggest it's a Focke Wulf 189B-0, one of only three production 5 seat trainers ever built, designed by Kurt Tank.
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Max, is that variant much different. When I saw the photo my first thought being that it was probably & Blohm & Voss until I realised that they were not twin boom.

Also coming to mind, I believe that I recall either an FW190 or Me 109 coupled fuselage with offset cockpit or is my memory playing tricks on me. :? :?

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It was the Blohm und Voss 141 that was offset Dennis. The Fw189 is a twin boom but the crew area is central. Most of this type, the A series, had a real glasshouse in the nose for, as you say, reconnaisance, but this was a trainer variant of which only thirteen were built in total.
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The Fokke - Wulf 189 B five seat trainer?
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Thanks Max, At AGS & beyond, the majority of our a/c. recognition was mainly in studying from all angles, black silhoutte plastic models suspended from the ceilings, & also models passed from hand to hand. We also spent many hours in darkened rooms with silhouttes flashed on to a screen every few seconds. There were a few popular definitions, for example, FW 190 carrot shaped fuselage
, JU 88 coffin shaped wings, head on view three zero's due to large radials & nose section, Me 210/410 head on square box fuselage,etc.

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Denonline wrote:
Also coming to mind, I believe that I recall either an FW190 or Me 109 coupled fuselage with offset cockpit or is my memory playing tricks on me. :? :?

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I remember those black models -but some were certainly of wood because I broke one once. They were very nicely made I recall. And there was a shop in Tottenham Court Road London (which at one time had a great number of Gov't Surplus shops) where you could buy them for a bob or two. A leather flying helmet was 5 shillings (25p).
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The Irving suit that I acquired became thanks to my Wife, a luxurious leather backed rug which in the early post war days was a luxury.

If you were to go down Tottnham Court road nowadays looking in the windows for models, any that you spotted would probably invite you in ;) ;)

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OK, Many thanks for all who made comment in identifying the aircraft.

Yes, the aircraft is in fact a Fw 189B, which was intended as a five-seat trainer. Ten of the Fw 189B-1 production aircraft were delivered before the Fw 189A production began.......... as quoted from the source.

I'm thinking I will have to harden the next task ........... just a little.
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