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Offline Xasthur

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Re: K4
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2008, 02:36:39 AM »
It's no photo, sorry, but it is a higher quality profile of the aircraft you're looking for.

My apologies for the quality of the image, it's just a quick snap in poor light of a profile from a book I have.




This is also interesting..... the caption refers to a poor quality photo of the aircraft.


Ooops, ref: 'Messerschmitt Me 109 Volume II: From 1942 to 1945', Breffort D, Jouineau A (2004)
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Offline Krusty

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Re: K4
« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2008, 11:11:21 AM »
Hrm... it's not very normal to have such large splashes of yellow on end-of-war planes.

They were targets, hunted all the time. They removed all distinguishing marks in the closing months except tail bands, most of the time. Even the crosses became minimalistic to reduce visibility.

I'm very skeptical of brightly painted yellow noses and rudders on 109Ks. The exception is the black or red tulip noses on 1-2 aces' personal rides.

Might want to double check your second one... Says "this is an interpretation, we couldn't tell based on the photo quality" -- and it doesn't follow ANY norms/conventions for end-of-war markings. 74/76 upper camo in no standard pattern?? Giant oversized yellow nose ring?? Yellow rudder? All signs point to no, just based on this one profile. If there's more supporting pics, that's something, but just that profile alone isn't enough IMO.

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Re: K4
« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2008, 10:42:29 PM »
That's why I posted it, mate. His explanation suggests that it's just the colour that is hard to interpret, not the detail.

If it's not that book, it's another one I have that suggests that those yellow marks were used to aid in friendly recognition in Boddenplatte.

I can't be sure about that until I check the ref but I have to go to work now

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