Rudo Božík - slovak fighter ace in WWII and his Bf 109 G's

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Hi there the_ivan,

Point taken; only I don't see any small airscoop under the windshield, the tell-tale feature of all unpressurized G types without "Beulen" (G-2, G-4). This leaves us with the Bf 109 G-1 or G-3, given there are no "Beulen" to be seen...

Cheers
Marc

[RT]

Probable STMKz GH+RQ.

CU+PQ in fact

Rémi

[udf_00]

For the odd P-51B http://www.airwarsk.sk/smith.html

[the_ivan]

Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann

Hi there the_ivan,

Point taken; only I don't see any small airscoop under the windshield, the tell-tale feature of all unpressurized G types without "Beulen" (G-2, G-4). This leaves us with the Bf 109 G-1 or G-3, given there are no "Beulen" to be seen...

Cheers
Marc

The quickest way to differentiate a pressurized variant (G-1, G-3, G-5) from its unpressurized counterpart (G-2, G-4, G-6) is to look for the desiccant pellets in the lateral windshield panels*. No pellets, no G-1/G-3/G-5.

Besides that, the use of these sub-variants was concentrated in a few units of Western Front. It will be extremely rare to find one in a Slovak unit.

* even if the pressurization systems has been disconnected/removed (with the installation of a Erla-Haube, for example)