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Old 11th August 2010, 21:05
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Re: Color still photo of a black Bf 109

Hallo Roger,

Yes, I stumbled also on those excellent US colour films shot in April 1945 at Nürnberg and Grafenwöhr.

As for the BF 109 G, it is actually an Erla Bf 109 G-10 with the flat canted panel under the windscreen, found at Grafenwöhr. This plane has been discussed in depth in the following thread:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...t=Grafenw%F6hr

A fine and sharp black and white picture exists also from the same machine:
http://www.pbase.com/rhssr/image/1671876

You can notice there this machine was actually finished in a segmented RLM 82/RLM 83 pattern which lower limit went down until the wing. The undersurfaces might have been left in bare metal. A colour profile has been published in 2007: "Captured Me109's" by Jacek Jackiewicz and Mirosław Wawrzyński:
http://www.soundcity.pl/Kecay/Me109/17.jpg




Cheers
Marc

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