Request: Torpedo LT F5b pics for Ju 88

[Simon Schatz]

Hi folks!

I just have finished my Ju 88 A-4 profile base. http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1..._03_Schatz.jpg

Now I want to do also Ju 88 A-4/torp and Ju 88 A-17. So I'm looking for reference pics of the LT F5b Torpedo. I just found the stuff at http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de/arc...r%20L%202.html

In my bookcollection I can't find anything.

Does anybody have more?

Cheers, Simon

[piero]

Hi Simon,

here is a 1/72 drawing (source - my private collection).

HTH

Cheers

Giampiero Piva

[Simon Schatz]

Hello Giampiero!

Thank you for the drawing. This is the same as on the link I have posted. It seems that the tail looks a little bit different from the drawing to the original. So I try to find some reference photographs.

Cheers, Simon

[DB601E]

Hi Simon,

there is a very interesting and detailed book:
Der Lufttorpedo. Entwicklung und Technik in Deutschland 1915 - 1945

As far as i remember, there are also detailed pictures of LT F5b included. I have only (detailed) pictures of LT F5w.

Greetings
Lino

[NoNo01]

Hello Simon,

there are two pics in the old modell magazin Fotoarchiv 9.
Picture 126 and 127 show two torps attached to a Ju 88.
In "Luftwaffe in Sardegna" by Alessandro Ragatzu You find six or seven pics from LT F5b on He 111 from KG 26.

And no, i am sorry i can´t do a scan because of a breakdown of my scanner.

BTW, i got my copy from "Luftwaffe in Sardegna" via Buchhandlung Schaden.
Maybe Herr Gröller has another example to have a look into.

Schoene Gruesze

Norbert

[chuckschmitz]

Not alot of detail here but perhaps it might help.

Chuck

[ChrisS]

Hi Simon

I hope this helps:

From Waffen-Arsenal 183 - Torpedo-Flugzeuge der Luftwaffe 1939-1945

[piero]

Hi Simon !

Sorry, I have post the wrong drawing. I think that this will be useful (source 'Ju 88 im Detail' - VDM).
Cheers

Giampiero Piva

[Simon Schatz]

Hi folks!

Thank you for the help and the sources for photographs. I'll try to get the one or other book. The "fuselage" is clear now, but much more important is the tail section of the torpedo. The drawings help, much I have noticed that there are some differences to the real thing.

Cheers, Simon

[DB601E]

Hi
The form/shape of the "fins" is the best way to define the type of LT
LT F5b: The angle of the front side of the fin and the LT is very precipitous.
LT F5w: The angle of the front side of the fin and the LT is more smooth.

Finally, the torpedo mounting device could handle both types, having different connectors for transmitting settings to the torpedo.
So both types have been used, specially in italy around 1943.


@ChrisS:
So the first of your pictures is more likely a LT F5w, according to the form of the "fins".


@Simon,
attached one picture, i have already posted here a while ago, showing the tail of a F5b and a Ju88. The other picture is LT5w, where you can see in detail the specific form of the fins.