Interesting Stuka

[rfl51]

Normally Stukas do not have Oil-coolers like on this picture - who can tell me more about this plane?
One of my friends send me this picture. Source is unknown!

Rudolph

[Graham Boak]

Looks like an upright V-12 installation, Merlin or HS. I suspect a fake.

PS. Not just oil-cooler, but main coolant radiator.

[Snautzer]

apparantly this plane was used for evaluation trials with new cooling and dust filter systhems this plane seen at naberm near kirchheimm/teck may have been one of the experimental testbeds flown by daimler benz at the nearby stuttgart-echterdingen airfield


Fotofax stuka

[cproyston]

Although similar to Snautzer's description, I have this noted as a "Ju 87 Bertha fitted with an outsize radiator in an attempt to improve performance, tested at Naberth".

I didn't note where the source was for this, but suspect Peter C. Smith's Ju 87, published by Crowood.

Cheers,
Chris

[Graham Boak]

I might accept that the apparent raised thrust line may not be real, but an artefact of the camera angle. The thin propellor and spinner (with its central hole?) may be that of a B-1. It's a shame that the exhausts aren't visible. However, this does not explain the deep nose.

[Snautzer]

another view

[Harri Pihl]

The nose shape is very much like some Hispano-Suiza (or Klimov) engined types like Graham noted above.

[rfl51]

I dont think those pictures are fake at all. Maybe this is a Ju 87B used in Rechlin for engine trials. I understand they had some Ju 87´s for experiments.

Rudolph