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My father who served in Belgian Airforce in 1945 can't remember on what plane he's standing.
Who can help me?
Mehr sein als scheinen
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I looked through my one lone book but had no luck.
--dj--Joe
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Possibly a FW200 Condor?
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Russell
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It is a big one, whatever it is. A Condor or maybe a Messerschmidt "giant" ? Also Arado (sp?) made some strange ones
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This is not a Focke-Wulf FW200 Condor. The Condors vertical stabilizer swoops to the pointed leading edge of the tail section.
I believe the aircraft in the photo posted is a Heinkel HE117A-5 long range bomber. This aircraft was also used as an open sea ship destroyer when fitted with ship radar antenna on the nose. It was also equipped with a tail gunner position which from the posted photo does not make clear.
I included pictures from Alfred Price's "German Air Force Bombers" volume two as a comparison reference. I hope this helps out.
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That definately looks more like it. Especially where the lower rear of the rudder is cut back in, parallel to the leading edge, and seems to match the pics very well.
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Russell
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Ruski, two things bothered me about the comparison pictures between the ones Of the He117 I showed and the original period photo Bruno Stachel posted of his Father. I couldn't see the tail gun position and the top of the vertical stabilizer looked to be more square on top. After a closer look the rudder appears to be left of BL zero which makes it look to be square. If the rudder was to the right of BL zero at the same wing station it would appear to be more pointed. In a level flight plan the rudder would be at BL zero and not LBL or RBL either way.
I hope you and I have helped Bruno in an answer to his question about the aircraft his Father is standing on. Bruno, that is a fantastic picture.
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Yes, I think you have correctly identified the aircraft with the pics shown.
Bruno, that is a great pic and a wonderful souvenir!
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Russell
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I sent this tail picture without other info to my young friend who is very interested in LW and he answered "That is very simple - Heinkel He177 Greif, probably of bomber group KG40. Pic could have been taken somewhere in Netherlands about May 1945 at 99% "
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