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As well, the V9 tested the concept for nacelle racks to carry auxiliary fuel tanks as Rowehl was asking that the
Berta also be used as a long-range reconnaissance aircraft. Like the V5, but not the V7, the V9 seems originally to have been equipped with an ejection-seat: "
Diese Flugzeuge werden mit Katapultsitzen ausgerüstet," as annotated in a 28.8.1944 document in Pawlas, pp. 4-5.
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92. Although
Anton's like the V5 had these climbing features, a step ladder was easier to get to the cockpit. The
Berta, however, lower to the ground, had the same handholds and footholds (including the extendable step seen here) that would allow the pilot to climb up the port side and "haul himself onto the top of the fuselage immediately aft of the cockpit," Creek & Forsyth,
Blitz Bombers, (Chandos, 2020), p.29, Also note the forked tow-bar that could more quickly hook up a
Berta and tow it to the safely of a revement.
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93. "
Cette vue de la moite arriere de l'Ar 234 V9 nous expose clairement la disposition du cable du parachute-frein de l'avion. En arriere-plan le queue de l'Ar 234 V1, W.Nr. 130010 Skz. PH+SR," Jean-Claude Mermet,
Arado Ar 234 Blitz, (AeroJournal, 2016), p.18.
Ar 234 V9 first flew on 12 March 1944 piloted by Arado's
Flugkapitän Ubbo Janssen. After serving as a test aircraft at Alt Lonnewitz and Rechlin, according to Smith & Creek, (Classic, 2022) p. 305 its last known flight was its 110th on 5 September 1944 (14:58-16:09 hrs. by Arado's new test pilot Otto Frach). However, on pp. 110-111 of the same source, Ludwig Dambach of BMW recounts how he damaged the V9 on landing when the main wheels did not deploy.