Spent Sunday afternoon at the Military Museum in Johannesburg. Nice mix of planes, tanks, Armoured cars and guns etc
Planes inc. a ME109 in a corn field which apparently came down near Udimore, a FW 190 with radar on the wings, ME262, Hurricane, Spitfire, Mosquito, Tropical ME109 (non crashed), C47, Buccaneer and Mirage and a selection of biplanes that I can’t recall.
Unusual (1 of 2 survivors from 15 built) ME262 with dual seat foo conversion from prop’s. Apparently, log book has last test flights at Farnborough from when captured.
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Late Griffin engined, Cannon shod Spitfire with very pointy wings
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Bought some original 1944 calander month pin-up girls, and noticed a book (The orange one!) by Andy Saunders in prominent display in the shop which was full of original artifacts from all sides. (http://www.warstore.co.za)
By: Clint Mitchell - 12th September 2013 at 10:39
Me262B-1a/U1, WNr.110305 ‘Red 8’
Several two-seat trainer variants of the Me262, the Me262B-1a, had been adapted through the Umrüst-Bausatz 1 factory refit package as night fighters, complete with on-board FuG218 Neptun high-VHF band radar, using Hirschgeweih (“stag’s antlers”) antennae with a set of shorter dipole elements than the Lichtenstein SN-2 had used, as the Me262B-1a/U1 version. Serving with 10./NG11, near Berlin, these few aircraft (alongside several single-seat examples) accounted for most of the 13 Mosquitoes lost over Berlin in the first three months of 1945. Wiki
By: jbs - 12th September 2013 at 09:50
Spitfire Mk.VIII JF294 – Merlin engine, not Griffon
By: DazDaMan - 12th September 2013 at 09:20
The Me262 is, I think, a night-fighter (very rare!) and the Spitfire is a Mk.VIII with high-altitude wingtips.
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September 11, 2013 at 9:49 pm