Unknown plane- for me

[Pilot]

Dear Jan,

yes it is my name but not important. I have seen a many of your images displayed on the AWF and I realy do respect your effort and from my point of view they are 100% authentic. Even more I do not undersand why people simply don't ask for sample and permission.

My previous post and some explanation is touching into tabu and I have good chance to be torn away from this board for providing such of info. Thanks God and don't know a complete process and even if I know I would never display it. Thing which make me to change my system of work is one company from the UK who had released Plug-in for Photoshop which can with easy convert image taken from Internet into theprint quality image. I read it in one issue of Mac World magazine. In this way I have completely redesign all of my web site and in the future I do not plane to publish archive image larger then 400 pixels. I want just to prevent that somebody could just take image from my site and "convert" it and them make one "original". I have allready seen some of images I have in my collection for sale on internet and they are in less quality then the material I have and I am realy doubtfull about their authenticy. But I am not expert in the field and can not give authoritative opinion about their quality.

I still beleive that image which I have display in the start of this topic is good. Thank you very much for your understanding.

Hope that in this topic I did not said anything abusing and if I did it was not my intention to hurt anybody.

[Ruy Horta]

Jan,

We are not making fun of you, nor questioning your intentions (yet).

However, since you've brought up a subject that is at best "unknown" and at worst "a deliberate fake", you'll have to bear a reasonable amount of scepticism.

If the current amount is enough to scare you away, I wish you the very best of luck and a lot of patience with your future dealings on the Internet, especially the historical community!

Bottom line, to some extend you'll have to proof the sceptics wrong.

If the Heinkel expert had verified the a/c design it would support his expertise, yet this expert seems only to verify the photos as genuine.

Again, if we even accept the photograph as genuine, we must now start to add up facts:

1. What Heinkel (or other manufacturer) design could this possibly be, there must be at least paper candidates, there must be some evidence. Lets face it, we have plenty of Luft '46 designs, some based on drawings on a paper napkin. Yet here is a complete design, a full prototype, which took up RLM resources, used an engine etc

2. What are the power plant candidates? The scope is narrowed down by the unorthodox exhaust setup. Is this really an X-cylinder engine?

3. General layout. Cooling, other technical features, etc etc etc.

I still insist that the engine looks to be placed too close to the cockpit, the fuselage too small to carry an extended prop drive shaft and what looks like some kind of air intake, again concentrated in the same area, too small to provide sufficient cooling. The same forward area needs to stow away the nose wheel. Side note, the gun sight seems to be out off place on a prototype.

Now I'll take a plunge:

Het is niet alles goud wat er blinkt...

Op dit moment ben ik zeker niet overtuigd.

Neem dat alsjeblieft niet persoonlijk op.