This arrived in the post this morning.
It was advertised as a Ju87 wing tip.
It came from a known crash site in Russia where many other parts with castings and part numbers etc.have been found.It was an SG 1 machine.
This has no part number visible.
It has RLM light Light Blue paint (65) on lower surface. It has RLM 70/71 traces on upper surface and the characteristic orange primer underneath. To the inside is the std grey/green primer.
It is 40cm x 15 cm
Looking at the Hendon machine – the wing tip is ca. 70cm and has internal structure. This was not from a G-2 so the light fitting is not always present.
The adjoining landing flap tip is roughly the correct size and river count.
Hence I think this is the landing/wing flap outer edge from the Port Side – any other opinions ?
Nice picture of both here:
http://www.maquetland.com/upload/phototeque/images/4746/junker87_g2_hendon_aile_gauche.JPG
It also came with a second part of skinning from the same dig as well as two pieces of newspaper in cyrillic – that I cannot decipher. Any help appreciated to see if they are related.
By: FarlamAirframes - 27th August 2015 at 16:26
I received some more parts from this dig and I attach a couple of photos.
One of the perspex section has some specific opaque sections. – Was this from the canopy or from the dive bombing floor window ?
Several airframe, instrument and engine parts all luftwaffe and Junkers with some inspectors stamps but few Ju87 direct stamps – one of the engine pieces has 87 stamps. One of the parts has FI50971 part numbers on it.
Please excuse the Canadian Bombsight “D” compass in lower LHS its new gasket was just drying at the side of my desk.
By: ian_ - 9th May 2015 at 19:41
Excellent! There was an interesting Russian Stuka dig on this site: http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/military-archaeology/. You need to register and it will take some tracking down! I downloaded this photo from the dig in 2007.
By: FarlamAirframes - 9th May 2015 at 19:23
Thanks Ian – thats the one!!
The plans show that end is 40 cm wide – so matches in that respect too.
So it is the starboard side Landing flap end cap.
By: ian_ - 9th May 2015 at 19:01
Here you go:
By: FarlamAirframes - 9th May 2015 at 16:22
Haven’t got that book Ian – so a picture would be good.
There are – as you correctly counted – seven rivets holes on the lower section and either 7 or 8 on the upper .
By: ian_ - 9th May 2015 at 16:08
Could it then be the inner end of the flap, next to the fuselage? In the ‘Mushroom’ Stuka book there’s a good photo showing 7 rivets and the same rounded shape, just bigger. Camera battery is charging so can’t pirate the photo just yet!
By: FarlamAirframes - 9th May 2015 at 15:40
Thanks Ian – It was from Leningrad.
From the model plans – I get 32- 35 x 12 -13 as an approximate dimension.
By: ian_ - 9th May 2015 at 14:49
Good to see a pice of Stuka not attributed to Fishbourne Creek! Certainly looks like flap end rather than wing tip. Scaling off model plans could be proof.
Would the paper be offers of safe surrender? Come to our side for lunch bowls, towels and guitar based entertainment… It’s an official German document.
Just googled, Passierschein is indeed ‘safe conduct pass’. Part of the bomb load on the Stuka?
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