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edwest · #1 4th January 2007, 02:49

F19Gladiator · #2 4th January 2007, 13:41

Only a heads up before you bid on the He 162 foto:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160069366841

Picture is published on p.15 in "Flugzeug Profile Nr.35, Heinkel He 162 ", . Taken at Leck airfield May 1945.
Foto Reference "Archiv Peter Petrick"

Will remember having seen it also elsewhere.

Great thanks to Ed who is taking the time posting the pictures here! Several are well known but many are on the other hand very interesting.

Cheers!

Parabellum · #3 6th January 2007, 00:22

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=300066222217
Italian?!?

Why not a Douglas built Boston, for RAF service? Almost certainly desert scheme camouflage...

Parabellum · #4 6th January 2007, 00:38

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=290063552342
Very interesting one!..
Beute flugzeug! A french CAUDRON "Luciole" lightplane.

Von Alles · #5 6th January 2007, 18:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parabellum

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=290063552342
Very interesting one!..
Beute flugzeug! A french CAUDRON "Luciole" lightplane.

Yes, but look at the roundel under the wing and the dmaged state : maybe used as a decoy on a fake airfield, as often with obsolete french aircrafts.
It is a Caudron, but I am not 100% sute it is a Luciole

best regards

Von Alles

Parabellum · #6 6th January 2007, 21:27

Hi Von Alles,

I'm sure of the fate: it's a Luciole!

http://perso.orange.fr/rxsept/avion/...%20luciole.jpg
Regarding to the underwing cockade, I can add that a lot of small "sportsplanes", such as i.e the Caudron C600 aiglon , the Hanriot H436 or the Hanriot H183 have been mobilized by the "Armée de l'Air", at the beginning of WW2, to be used as duty and liaison planes.
Subsequently, they have been camouflaged and french cockades applied on.
The pic is certainly not of a german Go 145!!!

Best regards.

Von Alles · #7 7th January 2007, 10:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parabellum

Hi Von Alles,

I'm sure of the fate: it's a Luciole!

http://perso.orange.fr/rxsept/avion/...%20luciole.jpg
Regarding to the underwing cockade, I can add that a lot of small "sportsplanes", such as i.e the Caudron C600 aiglon , the Hanriot H436 or the Hanriot H183 have been mobilized by the "Armée de l'Air", at the beginning of WW2, to be used as duty and liaison planes.
Subsequently, they have been camouflaged and french cockades applied on.
The pic is certainly not of a german Go 145!!!

Best regards.

You are right : it is a Luciole, probably in the C-275 sub-series. More than 200 of these machines are said to have been siezd by germans in 1942, but only a very few pics emerged to this date.
Von Alles

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