I Knew if I Kept Looking......

[bustr]

This is a moot point because Mr. Hitech gave an Official answer in another thread. That is law for me as far as the game is concerened.

This is just technical curiosity and being a good research analyst by finishing what I started as a personal research project.

I found the first manual for the Bf109 series that showed an ideot diagram of the relationship between the morokanon, MG and Revi line of sight. I wanted to find a document which showed this in black and white for my own sanity and improved relations with my wife.

Bf109 F 1 armerors manual.

Page number in the pdf document: (34)

http://deutscheluftwaffe.de/archiv/Dokumente/ABC/m/Messerschmitt/Me%20109/Bf%20109%20F1%20Bedienung%20der%20Schusswaffe.pdf

[bozon]

I can just barely read in German, but these fonts are real killers!

[Lusche]

I can just barely read in German, but these fonts are real killers!

Be glad there is no handwriting in Suetterlin in it... even Germans can't read that anymore

[bustr]

Now you tell me. Last night I was reading the Kuhlftofftuhler system (Cooling System) in the 109F 1-4 mother of all maintennace manuals. It was all in Sütterlin.

kühl lftoff tuhler
kühl stoff kühlen

Used to have a girlfreind who read german. I remembered her explaining the differences. So I translated for (s) when I saw (lf) and (k) when I saw (tuh). I like the very logical manner in which shorter words representing larger concepts can be placed together and the translation describes all of the primary components to the whole. Wonderful tech manuals the germans created.

Did you know in the Bf109F 1-4 series the wing radiators have coolant flow cutoff valves that are not hooked up to anything in the cockpit to remotely turn them off in the case of damage to a wing radiator? Looks like the Finns with their Bf109G series feild moded toggle valves controlled from the front left and right of the cockpit to shut off flow at the main stoff tubes from the wing roots.

I don't get it. The genius and detail to everthing else is fascinating. Then they leave two very important emergency valves disconnected till almost the end of the war..but they did add a few more millimeters of armored aluminum plate over the radiators in the F-7 series...

Fascinating.................. .............

[SectorNine50]

German engineering is always that way, I feel.

My buddy's Audi, for example, is a brilliant machine, but things that require regular maintenance are in the most unexplainable and difficult-to-reach locations.  Can be rather frustrating.

[bustr]

Lusch,

Sorry the manuals I've been reading are written using Fraktur. The old girlfreind got a degree in german. but that was many ago.....

Capitol A looks like an elegant U and captiol S looks like an elegant capitol O......and sometimes the small letter f does not have the cross on it.....and ch looks like a dj........

[Ardy123]

FYI..

As I'm sure luche knows already

suetterlin


fraktur

[bustr]

Sutterlin looks like my handwriting now....ewwwww.

Or like a paper I wrote in my college freshman year after a beer party.

[moot]

Sütterlin looks like something outta Mike Mignola comic.

[Babalonian]

Damn, seriously!?  And I though English script handwriting was atrocious to read.  Suetterlin is impossible for me.  This is all I see:  OriSSnrlinnnnn, Ummmmnrmmmfinrnis niognnnnnnnnnnwn, etc.  Im seriously imagining this language comprised mostly of elongated farting noises.