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Xingbake
06-25-2004, 06:32 AM
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9350/4205.jpg
scrybe
06-25-2004, 06:51 AM
I dunno, but his plane has got "BADASS" written all over it.
easyand
06-25-2004, 07:50 AM
German bomber ace
Secret Squirrel
06-25-2004, 07:54 AM
I dont think he's anyone important. And it looks like the top of a German U-Boat conning tower (where U-Boat crews sometimes painted ships to represent kills).
Fargin
06-25-2004, 07:58 AM
It looks more like a flying U-boat to me.
Xingbake
06-25-2004, 07:59 AM
I dunno, but his plane has got "BADASS" written all over it.It's a Ju-88
Secret Squirrel
06-25-2004, 08:01 AM
I dunno, but his plane has got "BADASS" written all over it.It's a Ju-88

which part?
Uncle Chô
06-25-2004, 08:08 AM
And it looks like the top of a German U-Boat conning tower (where U-Boat crews sometimes painted ships to represent kills).
rofl rofl

It looks more like a Junker Ju.88 (I first thought of the torpedo air launched version of Heinkel He 111 but the rudder is different)... They were engaged in the maritime warfare over the Atlantic in support of the U-Boots.
fdt
06-25-2004, 08:09 AM
This might be one of the JU-88 bombers with it's mechanician (that's not a flyer suit). Norway or Northern France?
Xingbake
06-25-2004, 08:10 AM
I dunno, but his plane has got "BADASS" written all over it.It's a Ju-88

which part?The tail woot
shrek
06-25-2004, 08:17 AM
A conning tower with twin machine guns and a rudder?
Secret Squirrel
06-25-2004, 08:37 AM
A conning tower with twin machine guns and a rudder?

Point taken. But stranger(?) things have happened...

http://www.submarine-history.com/NOVAM1.jpg

British M-1

http://www.submarine-history.com/NOVAsurcouf.jpg
Mark Sman
06-25-2004, 08:40 AM
Could it be a FW 200 Condor?

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Fw%20200%20Condor

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/condor.html
Tail looks like it might be different. Different models?

Condors were used to bomb transports is why I suggest it.
ZeroPositive
06-25-2004, 09:22 AM
Messerschmitt 410
or a Ju88 used in Anti shipping role the rear guns were to keep fighters off its tail....

I have seen this photo before..... damnit hate when I can't find more pics of the same plane....
Uncle Chô
06-25-2004, 09:45 AM
I have seen this photo before..... damnit hate when I can't find more pics of the same plane....
I have just left a post with the link to this image on a "I know everything about Luftwaffe" active forum :D

I am sure I will have a comprehensive answer within a couples of hours ;)
Uncle Chô
06-25-2004, 10:17 AM
I have just left a post with the link to this image on a "I know everything about Luftwaffe" active forum :D I am sure I will have a comprehensive answer within a couples of hours ;)
It took 12 minutes precisely before the first answer came out :lol:
It is indeed a coastal patrol version (torpedo) of the Ju88 but what we thought machine guns / cannon are a Mk T2 ...flame thrower!! It was used to trick ennemy fighters coming too close from the rear. It was also tested on the He 111...

More to come later. p-)
Uncle Chô
06-25-2004, 02:33 PM
Last and final compiled informations :


German Luftwaffe Ju-88 coded 9K+FB. Equipped and flown by Oblt.d.R. Dr. P.W. Stahl, the Technical Officer of the I Gruppe. Photo taken Zilistea, Romania, on the Eastern Front. It carried a yellow Rumpfband (and the overall finish was quite scruffy). Later the tubes were removed and it was flown as a conventional bomber. The ship-kills (mostly small coastal patrol boats) were painted on both sides of the rudder.

The rudder hinge line reveals this to be an earlier Ju 88A-5, not the later A-4.
The historical knowledge of those guys is incredible. Can't say more on this topic p-)
caleb
06-25-2004, 02:44 PM
Last and final compiled informations :


German Luftwaffe Ju-88 coded 9K+FB. Equipped and flown by Oblt.d.R. Dr. P.W. Stahl, the Technical Officer of the I Gruppe. Photo taken Zilistea, Romania, on the Eastern Front. It carried a yellow Rumpfband (and the overall finish was quite scruffy). Later the tubes were removed and it was flown as a conventional bomber. The ship-kills (mostly small coastal patrol boats) were painted on both sides of the rudder.

The rudder hinge line reveals this to be an earlier Ju 88A-5, not the later A-4.
The historical knowledge of those guys is incredible. Can't say more on this topic p-)


You got a link to that forum? thx in advance