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14th November 2006, 00:39
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Re: Sm 91
Hello,
the Sm91 or the Sm92... I don't remember wich one of the two... was flown to the Rechlin LW Test Center in Germany for test trial by the famous german test pilot Werner Lerche... during the flight to Rechlin he also made a stop on another german airfield... I think it was an airfield around Munich... I've got this info from the Flugbuch of W.Lerche... Sorry for not being able to give you 100% info but I'ven't got my files here with me... 
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14th November 2006, 02:04
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Re: Sm 91
You are correct. There were two prototypes of the SM.91. The first one was flown to Germany by Werner Lerche on 12 October 1944. The second one remained in Vergiate, together with the prototype of the SM.92 and these two were destroyed on 27 December 1944.
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All the best, Ferdinando D'Amico
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#4
14th November 2006, 08:54
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Re: Sm 91
By the way, the twin boom airplane cannot be a Gotha which is a high wing plane, nor a SM 92 which has no central nacelle, which is clearly seen on the photograph. So, it could be only a SM 91 or a Fokker G1. When we compare on the photo, the lenght of the HE 177 with the lenght of the twin boom, the Fokker hypothesis seems to match.
In the book "German secret flight test centres to 1945" H.Beauvais, K.Kössler...we find no mention of SM 91 or 92 tested at Rechlin. All the best Christian
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#5
14th November 2006, 11:22
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Re: Sm 91
Hello,
the Sm91 and the Sm92 were both tested by Werner Lerche and the Sm91 was flown to Reschlin... I had a look to the Flugbuch of Werner Lerche... his opinion of both planes are pubblished on italian books... The Fokker G1 inspired Ing. Marchetti for the design of the Sm88... an aircraft wich was test flown as Sm91 prototype No.1 and that had a completelly different central nacelle from the Sm91... it had a defensive turret and a bomb bay... Prototype No.1 was destroyed during a test flight and I got photos of the up side down plane and the story from the engineer who had this flight accident... in fact all known photos of the Sm91 are of the second prototype... Take the above info as they are cause the only probe of wath I wrote lie in my personal archive and there's no known photos of the first prototype of the Sm91 except the one in my possession... Best regards...
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