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Re: Junkers Ju88A-15 (V60), W.Nr. 140561
Hi Simon,
What is your source for the "Brownish-Green" colour (of the Dunkelgrun) as on your scetch? Paint samples from Ju 88 that I have, show colours were more Green~Grayer and darker, but I guess it´s not what you are after.
This colour photo (attached), from "Luftwaffe in Focus" 1/2002, showing Ju 88 A-5 W.Nr. 0880774 T5+BU (from early in 1941 production), is one of the best that I have found, and in my opinion matches the colours, as I see them (but colour perception does vary from one person to the other).
Over the years I have searched for "best" colour chips to match but find the "Dunkelgrun" often too "Brown" in my opinion (Monogram Paint Guide has it almost "Brown-ish".) But having actual paint from Ju 88 is perhaps not everybody has. I have not found any reference that FZB (Bernburg) did change the RLM 65/70/71 colours during their production run, or if they did, when. The aircraft (Ju 88 A-4 140561) was from about February 1943 production, already flying by early March 1943, but I do not have actual dates of the conversion to Ju 88 V60, some sources say it was flying as such in summer 1943. I belive the correct designation to use is "Ju 88 V60" as no series production of A-15 was performed.
Lastly "that thing" on the right wing was a "Logstang", a secondary pitot/static sensing setup - to be farther away from the airframe/wing airflow disturbance - for better (more accurate) speed/pressure/(temperature) calibration, and likely connected to a second set of instruments, overseen by an observer, in the rear of the cockpit.
An example of similar can be found in books Beauvais/Kössler/Mayer/Regel: "German Secret Flight Test Centres to 1945" (Midland; Bernard & Graefe Verlag 1998, 2002) showing such in He 177 P.89, and has photo of an engine monitoring installation in an (unspecified) Ju 88 on P.96.
regards
ed
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