Author Topic: Question about Luftwaffe Planes... (Read 468 times)

Seagoon · « **on:** March 22, 2005, 03:05:50 PM »

Hi All,

Esoteric question for the experten...

I've noticed that in all of the pictures of captured BF109s taken at the end of the war, the little square "First Aid Panel" is missing and there is a just a hole in the fuselage. What happened to them? Germans raid them before capture? American confiscations? Similar structural defect?

- SEAGOON

frank3 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2005, 03:25:16 PM »

They robbed the morfine

Seagoon · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2005, 03:34:07 PM »

I suspected that might be the case - but who? Germans for the black market?

frank3 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2005, 04:06:39 PM »

Hmm I have no idea why all the first aid kits are removed.
For logical reasons, they could re-use the kits? At the end of the war, alot of medicines were needed.
And they were easy to remove I assume

Crumpp · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2005, 04:48:31 PM »

Whatever the reason they are extremely rare.

I suspect that being part of the pilots survival kit, the pilots took them. It would seem smart to have a first aid kit when your immediate future is in doubt during time of war.

http://www.white1foundation.org/restoration_flightgear.htm

All the best,

Crumpp

Kurfürst · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2005, 03:11:11 AM »

That access hatch is for the radio equipment and other electrical stuff - I guess this more valuable, and delicate war equipment was removed by either the LW or the Allies. Ie. it was standard procedure to self-destruct the radio and IFF keycodes to prevent them falling to enemy hands in crashlanded planes etc. So I guess they took the radio out (a quite valuable piece at that time btw!), and then throw the panel away...

frank3 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2005, 10:05:47 AM »

That's were the first radio-crimes started, picking the lock, stealing the radio and run off

Hadn't they got safety devices? Like an alarm or something...

Seagoon · « **Reply #7 on:** March 24, 2005, 12:22:53 PM »

Just wondering why there is a red cross on a radio access hatch? I see in the BF109 cutaways that there is electrical equipment below the hatch, but my understanding that the sealed medical kit for ditched fliers was also located there.

No?

- Seagoon

bunch · « **Reply #8 on:** March 24, 2005, 02:23:20 PM »

Use radio to call doctors?