While searching for something else, I found reference to the crash of a Typhoon Ib, T9+GK, operated by Versuchstaffel 2./Versuchverband OKL. The crash is noted as having occured on “28 July, 1944 near Meckelfeld, 5 km SE of Harburg, S of Hamburg.” The pilot, Fw Herbert Gold, was killed in the crash.
Does anyone have the pre-Luftwaffe history for the Tiffie?
Regards,
Jan
By: brewerjerry - 23rd March 2008 at 03:57
identity
Hi All,
discussed in the link below and on the old LEMB before the old website crash.
The conclusion was it was Wn 0548 , ex JP548,
http://www.ahs.no/ref_db/lw_loss_public.asp?lossid=117596
References
1) 12 O’Clock High
2) The Typhoon and Tempest Story
3) Flugzeugunfälle und Verluste bei Schulen und sonstigen Dienststellen, 30.07.1944, Lfd.Nr 12
and
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=9704
cheers
Jerry
By: Cranswick - 22nd March 2008 at 16:47
“Barn door” Typhoon?! New one on me but I suppose it was a bit of a barn door. Perhaps ‘car door’? which seems to have been adopted as the way of describing Typhoons fitted with the original canopy design. Anyway ‘T9-GK’ was EJ956 ex SA-I of 486 Squadron, not JP548 which was indeed the ex 174 Squadron aircraft which crashed on 29 July 1944.
EJ956 SA-I had been shot down by flak on a Rhubarb and force-landed at Cany-Barville on 24 March 1943. Flt Sgt Bill Mawson was captured the next day.
By: WG-13 - 17th March 2008 at 14:00
While I know Wikipedia isn’t always trustworthy, I found this;
“On 14 February 1944, another Typhoon was captured and later flown in Zirkus Rosarius. JP548 of 174 Sqn., force landed after engine failure near Marigny, France – the pilot, F/O Proddow evaded capture. This Typhoon crashed at Reinsehlen on 29 July 1944, killing Feldwebel Gold.”
By: paulmcmillan - 17th March 2008 at 13:22
I think it remains unidentified
http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=308
There is a picture of a barn door Typhoon with serial ??358 or ??558 on the web site prehaps that one can be identified based on the partial serial
which would be within: And MUST be a Barn Door version
R8861 R8900 Typhoon Hawker
R7576 R7599 Typhoon Hawker
R7613 R7655 Typhoon Hawker
R7672 R7721 Typhoon Hawker
R7738 R7775 Typhoon Hawker
R7792 R7829 Typhoon Hawker
R7913 R7923 Typhoon Hawker
R8966 R8981 Typhoon Hawker
R8737 R8781 Typhoon Hawker
R8799 R8845 Typhoon Hawker
RB192 RB512 Typhoon Hawker
R8198 R8200 Typhoon Hawker
R8220 R8231 Typhoon Hawker
R8630 R8663 Typhoon Hawker
R8680 R8722 Typhoon Hawker
R7845 R7890 Typhoon Hawker
R8923 R8947 Typhoon Hawker
MM951 MP203 Typhoon Hawker
PD446 PD623 Typhoon Hawker
JP361 JR535 Typhoon Hawker
DN241 DN623 Typhoon Hawker
EJ899 EK568 Typhoon Hawker
P5216 P5216 Typhoon Hawker
P5212 P5212 Typhoon Hawker
SW386 SW478 Typhoon Ib Hawker
SW728 SW772 Typhoon Ib Hawker
SW681 SW716 Typhoon Ib Hawker
SW551 SW668 Typhoon Ib Hawker
SW493 SW537 Typhoon Ib Hawker
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