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Originally Posted by Pilot
After reading this as well your analyze of the black 4 captured in Italy, from many sources credited as G-10, I really don't know what I have in hands when look at some images I have. One question- is the G-14 regular manufactured version or just emergency compilation made from many available elements and parts?
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The G-14 was a regularly produced sub-version. As well as the G-10. The "myth" of emergency or stop-gap versions (the G-10 suffered of this misconception until recently) has been debunked from original documents.
This does not imply that sometimes "emergency" solutions weren't used to optimize the use of already produced parts and/or to keep production going (one example is the lower - double chin bulged - cowl of the G-14/AS taken from the K-4 production at MTT and the use of the G-5 engine cowl - double bulge on stbd side - on most of the G-14 production at Erla).
There are very few things written in stone, particularly in the late Bf 109 production, but solutions seems to have always been logical, once known what the problem was...