Do335 240102 help needed

[Simon Schatz]

Hi folks!

Does anybody have detail photographs of the tail of 240102 before it was restored? I'm looking for a photograph were the handwrited text at the lower tail is readable. It is visible at photographs when the plane reached the US in December 1945.

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/wp-conte...03/d335-32.jpg

Thanks, Simon

[Simon Schatz]

Hi Folks! Would be very important for me. So please, if someone could help, that would be great.
Cheers, Simon

[Snautzer]

Did you see this one?

[Peter Ušiak]

No. Where is it ? And why under open sky, jesus christ ?!

[Revi16]

Originally Posted by Peter Ušiak

No. Where is it ? And why under open sky, jesus christ ?!

That picture looks like it was taken at the Paul Garber Facility (NASM) in Suitland, Maryland prior to it being sent back to Germany for restoration. (early 1970's perhaps)


Edit:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_335

"VG+PH went to the Navy for evaluation and was sent to the Test and Evaluation Center, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. Following testing from 1945 to 1948, the aircraft languished in outside storage at Naval Air Station Norfolk. In 1961, it was donated to the Smithsonian's National Air Museum, though it remained in deteriorating condition at Norfolk for several more years before being moved to the National Air and Space Museum's storage facility in Suitland, Maryland. In October 1974, VG+PH was returned to the Dornier plant in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (then building the Alpha Jet) for a complete restoration. In 1975, the aircraft was restored by Dornier employees, many of whom had worked on the airplane originally. They were amazed that the aforementioned explosive charges built into the aircraft to blow off the dorsal fin and rear propeller prior to pilot ejection were still installed and active 30 years later."

[Revi16]

This isn't any clearer, but may be it as well.

http://www.airpages.ru/eng/mt/do335_03.shtml
http://www.airpages.ru/mt/do335_33.jpg
http://www.airpages.ru/mt/do335_50.jpg

[Snautzer]

By the time it came of Reaper the writing was gone it seems. I posted a few pictures from eBay here which that shows the tail quite well.

https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/thread.../#post-1192289

[Revi16]

Originally Posted by Snautzer

By the time it came of Reaper the writing was gone it seems. I posted a few pictures from eBay here which that shows the tail quite well.

https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/thread.../#post-1192289

Snautzer - I'm unable to view your pics unless I register with that forum.


The OP's first pic was taken in the USA at Pax River NAS, sometime after it was unloaded from the Reaper. I have similar pics showing the otherside of the aircraft dated Nov. 1945.

As for the writing, it was most likely placed there by an American. Before, during or after delivery to the USA I don't know.
The top line could be anything, "W / 15" as an example. It's most likely nothing special.
The bottom two angled lines may not be words at all. They may just be sealing tape or peeling paint as seen on the RH Lower Vert. Stab. below.

Pax River NAS, Nov. 1945.

[Simon Schatz]

Thank you folks for your help!