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Originally Posted by ouidjat
Hi Marc,
An installation trial for DB 605 D, yes, with some other new devices too; specially in August 1943.
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Hi Guys,
Did I write this?
Sorry...
Whatever, I would like to know how authors from both cited books did get the info it was some Bf 109 K mock-up?
The more I look for the pictures, the more I look - with the few I have - for production batches, the more I tend to think it's a Bf109G-4 used for WNF experiments for Bf 109 G-6 own production; 19093 to 20800.
That some features were used in later Bf109k production, why not.
As Marc wrote, cowling is closer to IAR production than Bf 109 K ones.
Cheers, Franck.
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Photos clearly show it has a DB 605 A, but with a refined cowling for MG 131 bumps similar to the one tested by Mtt AG in W.Nr. 16476 on April 43.
The cockpit seems clearly a mock-up: GM-1 equipment, pressure valves for pressurization, electrical panel wooden mock-up similar to the one adopted in K-series, MK 108, etc.
Since WNF was tasked with development o 109 series, and the first planned variants were to be equipped with DB 605 A in pressurized and unpressurized form (K-2 and K-1), and E-Stelle inspected a "109K" in WNF, the identification of these photos as K prototype/mock-up seems a case of 1+1...