|
Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces Please use this forum to discuss the German Luftwaffe and the Air Forces of its Allies. |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
I'm not very good at aircraft identification. Maybe someone knows what is on the ground and in the pens?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2455401...42292/sizes/o/ |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
|
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
Hello again!
The moving A/C on the left is certainly a Ju-52 (we are in Dessau, home of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke). There is a four engine A/C in one of the hangars in the wood, I would say a Ju-290...without certainty! JV |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
Thanks JV
Immediately to the left of the 4 engine possible JU-290 there is what appears to be an even larger AC in the pen. It is hard to tell how many engines it has though. All the best Scott Blyth |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
Hello Scott I have taken measurements on the photo (against the Ju52 known has having a 29m wingspan), and I find 42m for the "Ju290" which makes really a Ju290!
The span of the other one approaches 50 m which makes it almost certainly the Ju390V1 which was in store at Dessau at the time of the photo. Note the latter is a six-engine A/C and visibly some of the engines have been removed already. My 2 cents, JV |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
Good work JV so how many JU390V1s were there and how many JU390s of all types?
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
Two...the two prototypes V1 and V2...
|
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Heavy Crop Aerial Photo Dessau May 30, 1944
Somewhat rare you might say. I understand that there may never have been a V2 though which could make this one the one and only. All the material I have looked at in the past few hours suggests that the V1 was not returned to Dessau until November 1944.
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Friendly fire WWII | Brian | Allied and Soviet Air Forces | 803 | 8th July 2023 15:47 |
Update:107 Plane crash in WWII, 30 km around of Heidelberg Area Part 1 | Klaus Deschner | Allied and Soviet Air Forces | 4 | 15th August 2013 03:27 |
Aerial Photo Oschersleben Airfield May 30 1944 | blythsco | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 0 | 21st March 2010 02:02 |
Aerial Photo Luftwaffe Airfield Halberstadt May 30, 1944 | blythsco | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 0 | 7th March 2010 07:49 |
Aerial Photo Reims-Champagne Luftwaffe Airfield May 1, 1944 | blythsco | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 0 | 3rd March 2010 02:00 |