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Re: For He 162 Experts: He 162 that went to the US
My initial thoughts that it was "White 23" too Simon... but the lack of camo along the length of the engine nacelle doesn't match any of the images of "White 23" I have access too.
In fact, the only image I can find comes anywhere near matching the engine nacelle scheme are post-war shots of FE-489/T2-489. However, other aspects of FE-489's scheme don't match with Walt's photo. War Prizes actually states on a caption for a colour picture taken in 1970, that FE-489 retained its original colour scheme, but this is shown as being incorrect when you look at the period images of this He162 on page 111 of "Heinkel He162 Spatz" by R.Forsyth & E.Creek [Classic, 2008] where the nacelle is a solid colour and not anything like later images of WNr.120077... if I were a betting man, I'd go with it being a post war mid-repaint image of WNr.120077...
@ Walt/everybody - do we know from where the image is reproduced from?
Cheers
Peter D Evans
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