Me110 aces' tail fin sells for £90,000!

Aircraft on the ground were fun targets for GI who wanted to pop of a few rounds at something NAZI. Cut tail sections often have ” damage ” that did not come from dogfighting. Pistol rounds included.

Lots of discussion on its provenance on here and the existence of two aurcraft

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?134240-German-aces-victory-marked-tail-fin-for-auction&highlight=snaufer

Well, if the AWM has one fin…..and the IWM has the other…

…this one must be one from an ultra-rare three-finned Bf110?

(Assuming Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer didn’t have two or more Bf110 so marked?)

Thanks pfP7063

That’s a great link to the fin in the AWM although their description states that the other fin is in the IWM.

Cheers Paul

Hi Folks

Some of the journalists from the ‘Daily Fail’ as many of you call it really should be taken to task for their lack of reserach when preparing their articles. This one included.

On a brighter note, just in case you weren’t aware the right hand fin is on display at the Australian War Memorial.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RELAWM35144/

Paul

Ah yes, that would explain it!

The real bullet-holes were made when the tail-fin was shot-through on the ground if I recall correctly from the last time this artefact was featured on the forum.

Thanks currawong, I can see that now.

Some of the holes are very neat, because some of the holes had bolts through them.

You may notice the outline of doped fabric covers.

Intergalactic provenence

Has anyone from this forum actually seen this item? Call me a cynic but some of the holes in the close up photo appear to be very neat.

This remarkable piece is worth every cent as first proof of piston engined aircraft to UFO intercept. The precision laser strikes at 90 degrees to the fin at 500km/h show just how lucky the pilot was to survive this first evil green lizard attack, until he was abducted in 1950.

One way to test for residues of alien laser beam plasma or other features is to put a handheld XRF to the piece, see at least if the alloy and rivets and paint compositions are consistent with something Teutonic 70 odd years old…

Yes, way too neat to be bullet-holes!

Has anyone from this forum actually seen this item? Call me a cynic but some of the holes in the close up photo appear to be very neat.

More classic daily fail reporting
“Marked each ‘kill’ by printing icon of the target on the tail fin of his jet”