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Old 28th December 2011, 17:26
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Re: Rudo Božík - slovak fighter ace in WWII and his Bf 109 G's

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Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann View Post
Hi there the_ivan,

Point taken; only I don't see any small airscoop under the windshield, the tell-tale feature of all unpressurized G types without "Beulen" (G-2, G-4). This leaves us with the Bf 109 G-1 or G-3, given there are no "Beulen" to be seen...

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Marc
The quickest way to differentiate a pressurized variant (G-1, G-3, G-5) from its unpressurized counterpart (G-2, G-4, G-6) is to look for the desiccant pellets in the lateral windshield panels*. No pellets, no G-1/G-3/G-5.

Besides that, the use of these sub-variants was concentrated in a few units of Western Front. It will be extremely rare to find one in a Slovak unit.

* even if the pressurization systems has been disconnected/removed (with the installation of a Erla-Haube, for example)
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