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Old 11th June 2016, 14:25
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Re: Me262 ID needed.

Looking at p.145 of Dan´s production log it is actually Innsbruck-Reichenau where the photo of "white 8" has been taken.

Here´s for comparison purposes a photo of the situation of Reichenau a/f amidst housing at the outskirts of Innsbruck. No wonder the runway was too short for the Me 262:

http://www.sagen.at/texte/gegenwart/...emknochen.html

The "S" on the fuselage and the big blotches of paint suggest that the plane has received a certain amount of structural damage before (with III./EJG 2?), was repaired, repainted and flown by FlÜG 1 to Innsbruck. Reichenau and Hötting aren´t far apart and Hötting at this time was nothing more than a huge meadow (Just read R.Forsyth´s comments in the final chapter of his "JV 44"). No wonder two pilots mistook Reichenau for Hötting.

The photos show the typical segmented camouflage on the fuselage beneath the cockpit and the overpainting of the (originally brighter?) fuselage sides with big blotches. The 500xxx series overpainted the at a certai stage of production (pre-painting of pre-fabricated fuselages?) brighter fuselage sides regularly with darkgreen - see the colour analysis of WNr 500200.

WNr 111974 seems to have taken this measurement - like many other jets - on repair shop basis.

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RolandF
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