Bf109G-10 (mcu-Erla Leipzig) Batch:490130-490399

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Originally Posted by KrisJG3

Hi Guys,

This :
'' ... -- 490000 – 490800 ~ Erla G-10 - many were fitted with DB 605/AS. ....'

Source: http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=27058

Quote:
Originally Posted by Oberst
according to Prein:

130000 – 130500 ~ Mtt-Regensburg G-10
150700 – 151000 ~ Erla G-10
151500 – 152000 ~ Erla G-10
490000 – 490800 ~ Erla G-10 - many were fitted with DB 605/AS

Well, that's it.

A quote from a source of the late '80s, when we all were convinced that the presence of DB 605AS would have been the only explaination to the absence of the "chin-bulges" which - we all assumed then - were the trade mark of the DB 605D... (until we years later learned by hard evidence - photographic too - that it was just a cowl and was used on almost all the MTT G-14/ASs simply because it was available). Then we all knew nothing of Erla and the nose redesign they had made, getting rid of such chin by reshaping the whole cowl...

Look, I personally did found three Erla G-10s in the ANR with almost sequential Werke Nummern in the 491 3xx batch, all with DB 605AS, but this do nor did mean the series was standard as such. At all.

The long work of Charles Bavaroise and Jorg Meinke has revealed a lot of what happened at Erla during the G-10 production and statements from old books do nothing to the cause of research than trying to pull clock hands backward, which is, you know, useless.

If you're searching about some G-10s produced by Erla in those batches, good, but please don't try to use old and debunked info to let us believe that "many" of the G-10s produced by Erla "were fitted with DB 605AS" because, simply, it wasn't so.

There are other, much more documented respected colleagues who can expand this concept further, but I just could not let pass this in silence (in this as well in other threads).

Then, do as you like, of course, but at least not having that slipping as a fact, which was (and is) not.