Hi Ed,
Thank you. Some of the pictures of "191301" I hadn't seen before. Also interesting was the page of "Winkle" Brown's logbook in which he records his self-authorized powered flight in a Me 163B at Husum on 10 June 1945.
Jim
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1974
63. This high-resolution copy of a picture of "FE495" is courtesy of Revi16. In the U.S.A., it was soon decided that "White 42" would not be used for spare parts to make "191301" flight worthy as "White 54" was the obvious choice. Instead, there was a need for public relations in a post war world. Static display aircraft of German origin were needed at air shows, recruitment fairs and even military parades. An "Air Force Exhibit Unit" was set up at Wright Field, Ohio and they gave "FE495" a beautiful, spurious make over. However, the bulbous air vent fairing on the tailpipe, the smaller access hatch to the MG 151/20 cannon and the damage to the tail tip identifies it as the fuselage of "White 42" with the "White 54" tail.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1975
64. This is another photo courtesy of Revi16. It shows FE495 sitting beside an He 162 at USAAF recruitment fair in about 1945-46.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1976
65. After publicity of the flight trials of FE500 at Muroc in the summer of 1946 people were eager to get a look at this novelty aircraft. This photo was taken, according to the caption, at the Philadelphia Air Show on 11 November 1948. However, the real FE500 was in storage at Norton AFB in California at that time.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1977
66. This "FE500" had an overall coat of dark green paint without mottling, but with the same bulbous fairing and smaller access hatch.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1978
67. In its final years, "White 42" got numerous make overs. Some were really bad like this very fake "FE500".
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1979
68. Or with streamlining!
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1980
69. Eventually, the usefulness of "White 42" came to an end. Franks. on page 18 of his book, says, "The remains of FE-495 were scrapped at Wright Field in 1950."