Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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
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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Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
I believe that it is the FW 189 offset cockpit reconnaisance a/c.
Dennis
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Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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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Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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.
Dennis
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.
Dennis
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Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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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Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
The Fokke - Wulf 189 B five seat trainer?
Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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.
Dennis
, 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.
Dennis
Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
Dennis - I shall not tell you again - Bf - not Me - now behave or you will be on jankers for a week. Dismiss.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.
Dennis
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).
Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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
Dennis
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
Dennis
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Re: Aircraft Identification Challenge No: 1
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.
John
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.
John
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