Me109G-10 Dual Production Plates

[veltro]

Originally Posted by harrison987

From what I have always understood, the very early G-10's had the DB605AS, not the 605D.

Went back to Prien-Rodeike's book (forgot it was in there), and clearly it has the 605AS.

Please, feel free to stick back to your twin-ID plate issue, but if your info on the Erla G-10 production is that you evidence above, then you are simply wrong and are using outdated info which (my own terrible fault, but at least I admit it...) I contributed to spread back in the late '80s/early '90s in my works.

It simply wasn't so and I have no troubles saying that (only God - for those believing in him - cannot be wrong). Study the work of Jean-Claude Mermet and documentary evidence (Rasmussen is studying Erla production from original material and document from several years and can be much more exhaustive than me), then discuss about G-14/As and G-10s produced by Erla, please.

Documentary evidence that Rasmussen found proves that only about fifty G-10s produced by Erla were equipped with the DB 605 AS due to an interruption of the supply of engines, and that even didn't happen at the start of production. That three of those were among the Italian-manned Bf 109s of ANR found abandoned in Orio al Serio airfield, contributed to spread (at least to me and then) the wrong assumption that the G-10/AS did exist. It simply wasn't so. I do reckon it and corrected my assumptions once that was proved wrong.

I have no agenda to determine what's right and what's wrong, only that I prefer to learn from data and documentation instead that from the reputation of authors. I know they also can be wrong...had it not been so, we would still stick to the old statements of the great William Green, that simply didn't knew a clue about the late-series Bf 109 and also wrote that the Bf 109 K-4 had two MG 151/15 on the cowling...

Sorry to be long and tedious, I promise to go back in my small corner for a while...

[Angantyr]

Hi!

My interest of WWII aeronautics started in the sixties, and by that time Profile publications were the state of the art. Nowadays much of its value (especially that covering of late-war Luftwaffe aircraft) is mostly the photograps, my own copy of Nowarras bf 109 book contains a mass of corrections. But by that time preumably much of the material was´nt available like it is today.

Thanks for your input!

Angantyr