Locate this photo

[Xasthur]

G'day everyone,

I was just having a bit of a snoop around the internet looking for something else when I stumbled across this:



The image source is:
http://www.airpower.at/news01/1228_pilothunt/index.html

Is this a real photo? I can't tell from the size of the image... Can anyone locate a larger, high quality version of it? If it's real it would be an amazing photo....

Cheers.

Regards,

-Arch

[FYB]

I certainly can't find a higher or larger quality picture, but that seems fake from the position the picture was taken from.

-FYB

[1pLUs44]

if it is real, that's the most realistic picture I've ever seen?

[Masherbrum]

Fake?   Looks like it was taken from the Nose turret.    Engine in view is outboard engine on the right wing.   WTF is "Fake" about that?

[Motherland]

It might be an original picture, but it looks like the 109's were photoshopped in.

[Tec]

Admittedly I don't have a real great eye for detail but isn't that a 190?

[Slash27]

The one on it's back looks like a 109. Is that a B-24?

[MiloMorai]

Did the LW use tracer ammo?

[Tec]

The one on it's back looks like a 109.

The more I look the more I think it's a 190.  Long round nose, big paddle prop, looks like an intake on the right side, squared off tips on the wings and H-Stabs, looks like the uncovered parts of the landing gear close in to the fuselage rather than farther out on the 109.

I googled around a bit and can't find any other copies of that pic.  Maybe you could contact the webmaster of that sight and see if he can help. 

[1pLUs44]

Admittedly I don't have a real great eye for detail but isn't that a 190?

Looks a lot like the 190D we have ingame.

[Tec]

Fake?   Looks like it was taken from the Nose turret.    Engine in view is outboard engine on the right wing.   

It's the inboard engine. You can see part of the cowling and prop on the outboard, so it must have been taken from the very back of the cockpit.  The picture looks legit for the most part, but when you blow it up the plane  farther out that's firing has some quirks.  Could very well be just the results of lighting and perspective when digitizing a grainy old photo though.

[Guppy35]

G'day everyone,

I was just having a bit of a snoop around the internet looking for something else when I stumbled across this:

(Image removed from quote.)

The image source is:
http://www.airpower.at/news01/1228_pilothunt/index.html

Is this a real photo? I can't tell from the size of the image... Can anyone locate a larger, high quality version of it? If it's real it would be an amazing photo....

Cheers.

Regards,

-Arch

First instinct says fake.  It appears to be a D9 rolling over and down seen from the co-pilot's seat of a B24.  It appears the intake for the inline engine shows up in the right spot on the D9  The LW birds seem photoshopped in.

I've looked at all kinds of WW2 aviation stuff over the years and never seen that shot.  Considering the content, I'd think it would have surfaced long ago as if it is real, it's a helluva combat photo.

For what it's worth, the other images on that site are often reproduced photos of B24s.  The one you posted is the only one not familiar to me.

[Slash27]

OK it's a 190!!!!   damn!!



 

[1pLUs44]

First instinct says fake.  It appears to be a D9 rolling over and down seen from the co-pilot's seat of a B24.  It appears the intake for the inline engine shows up in the right spot on the D9  The LW birds seem photoshopped in.

I've looked at all kinds of WW2 aviation stuff over the years and never seen that shot.  Considering the content, I'd think it would have surfaced long ago as if it is real, it's a helluva combat photo.

For what it's worth, the other images on that site are often reproduced photos of B24s.  The one you posted is the only one not familiar to me.

I think I've seen a film, where it's that exact same thing, minus the planes. Like a black and white film of a B-24's engine flying. It looks very familiar now.

[Xasthur]

First instinct says fake.  It appears to be a D9 rolling over and down seen from the co-pilot's seat of a B24.  It appears the intake for the inline engine shows up in the right spot on the D9  The LW birds seem photoshopped in.

I've looked at all kinds of WW2 aviation stuff over the years and never seen that shot.  Considering the content, I'd think it would have surfaced long ago as if it is real, it's a helluva combat photo.

For what it's worth, the other images on that site are often reproduced photos of B24s.  The one you posted is the only one not familiar to me.

That's exactly what I was thinking.... It was a 'too good to be true' moment for me when I saw that image. I was just hoping that someone would prove me wrong and say "Here ya go mate, this is the photo in a massive resolution".