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Re: Captured P-51B T9+PK
Technical curiosity question:
With several ac listed being repaired or engines being replaced by Luft personnel, did they have English measurement tools or was the US industry already using metric? |
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Re: Captured P-51B T9+PK
Hello,
These Luftwaffe Mustangs were/are well covered on the LEMB website. If I recall correctly, "Jerry" from memory was the original T9+CK NO fin strak. The later one was "My Lady Margaret" With fin steak. Then there was T9+HK and T9+PK In LEMB there are many photos of all known captured P51's and comments for each. Alex |
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Re: Captured P-51B T9+PK
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FYI - Both Airbus and Boeing make extensive use of American standards for hardware, like MIL spec, MS (Military Standard), AN (Army Navy Standard or NAS (National Aerospace Standard). No metric on either. |
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Re: Captured P-51B T9+PK
I'm pretty sure that 43-24825 was T9+HK
In JG-77-Volume 4, the loss of Oblt. Leo Potjans on December 10,1944 has the following information: Absturz, Übung, Bötzow bei Velten , 100%, P-51B Wkr 825 T9+HK In "Battle over the Third Reich" by Held (p59):"This was one of two captured Mustangs to crash during the first half of 1944[sic]. Not being familiar with the characteristics of its laminar flow wing the pilots got into incipient spins with insufficient height to recover.". The picture shown is that of T9+HK. |
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Re: Captured P-51B T9+PK
Hello,
I though that the photo shown in post 1 was of "T9+PK" ? Alex |
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Re: Captured P-51B T9+PK
The non-metric /English/ measurements and tools were quite popilar in prewar Europe. In Germany the Zoll /inch/ size was widely used.
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