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BTW: Thanks for the info on the division into different subtypes of G-14 ! Do you also have this for other factories?
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Sorry, Yogybar, but even this one I found only by accident.
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My vote would be for a standard G-14 but intended for some mission-dedicated model, e.g. photo-reconn (G-14/R2) where the MW tank might hinder access to a large camera.
Hal
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The camera on the 109 strategic recce aircraft was directly behind the fuselage fuel tank, and ahead of any MW-50 tank. And since access to the camera was through the rear of the cockpit, the MW tank would not have reduced access to the camera.
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...which of course would make it a regular G6...unless of course these 200 or so "G-14" birds were to have the most advanced features not common to all G6 (bigger rudder, longer tail wheel strut, erla haube, etc.)
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Didn't the G-6 also get the bigger rudder, longer tail wheel strut, Erla haube, etc.
Slightly off topic, here are a couple of photos, from Prien's JG 1 and 11, Volume 2, Page 1081, of the first G-14 captured. As I said at the beginning of this thread, the early G-14s were simply upgraded G-6s; and you'll notice that Prien calls the aircraft a G-6, but the RAF got the type off the manufacturer's plaque that showed it to be a G-14. And it still has the G-6's short strut tail wheel and small rudder, and I think it had an Erla haube, although it was not recovered.