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Originally Posted by Cpt_Farrel
As for the Erla-built G-14/AS. I thought that they did have the higher fillercap for the oiltank? The pictures of Eberhard Gzik's "Red 2" doesn't show the cap itself but the placement of the stencil seem to indicate the higher placement. EDIT - The picture I have at hand doesn't show the cap in enough detail, I know there's a better pic showing the nose in more detail so maybe someone else can tell?
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I hope you can forgive me, but you are right and I was wrong speaking of the oil filler cap (maybe holidays relaxes too much...
). As a matter of fact, the higher oil filler cap was almost a trademark of the Erla production since the G-14 (I once posted about the lack of info on the Erla G-14 production and the peculiar choice of the bigger 60l annular oil tank mated with the DB 605A, but nothing emerged...) and it was there also on the G-14/AS built at Leipzig.
A proof of that is the nose of "Rita", which is documented with three photographs in the fantastic double volume of J-Y Lorant and Richard Goyat on JG 300. Here is Gzik under the nose of his aircraft which clearly shows the high oil filler cap...
Hope this helps