Me110 crash landing London?

Downed German aircraft were frequently toured around various towns and cities in the UK, so the Me110 you mention may well have been placed on display rather than coming down there.

Can you give any more specific details, eg. the code letters on the fuselage?

First code letters on the port side fuselage were S9 and the machine appeared to have netting over the propellers.

If it were on display it was parked wheels up, untidily blocking the road.

Unfortunately the book was from the library, Pa thinks it was called ‘Unseen Britain.’

Difficult to pin down with only the first two code letters, although S9 means it was from EprobungsGruppe 210.

This was displayed in a street at I think (from memory!) in Hendon. It was S9+CK brought down at Hawkhurst, Kent, on 15 August 1940.

Life mag page 34.

http://books.google.com/books?id=pEwEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_hp#v=onepage&q=&f=false

some good pics & story there

The whole magazine is an exellent read, some fascinating articles ,esp the one on Churchill.

Thanks for all the information chaps. I wonder what happened to the aeroplane once in the USA?

Theres one in a book called Images of World War II by Allison Gauntlett (Parragon books) from the Daily Mail photo archive which fits the info…wrongly titled as having landed in the street! 🙂

I think this aeroplane ended up with Vultee ? I seem to remember seeing some great colour shots of her at the American factory being taken apart. As far as I know she never flew again.

A very skilful landing 😀

Missed the hut, the lamposts and the bus and everything….!

The whole magazine is an excellent read, some fascinating articles ,esp the one on Churchill.

Agreed. I love the adverts.

A very skilful landing 😀

Missed the hut, the lamposts and the bus and everything….!

Proof, at last, that the Germans invented VTOL

Roger Smith.

Talk about co incidence. I swear people can read my mind. I have just been tryng to find some photos of this very aeroplane and some of its history. Does anyone know what its eventual fate was? Also i cant tell in the photo if she caries over wing crosses? Does anyone know if she would have done?

Do you remember where these colour photos appeared? Im working on modelling her so all infomation would be gretly apreciated.

Hi Ollie I think I saw the colour pix in a Crecy book on the history of the 110. The stills are actually extracts from a colour FILM made by the aircraft manufacturer during the examination of the airframe. Now that’s a film I’d really like to see ! Maybe there are some leads to follow on other forums ?

re;

it looks very intact. i would have thought the enemy a/c flight would have snapped this one. the prop isnt even bent!

They are. And the wing leading edge looks a tad, erm, dishevelled…

Besides which, the RAF already had another Bf110C under airworthy rebuild at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Me_110C-4_RAF_NAN15Jun43.jpg

First flight of AX772 on 15 Feb 1941?

Surely 25th Oct 1940, 2 flights for 35 min.

RAE et al don’t seem to have been very interested in the 110 do they? Judging by the few of them that they flew, compared to, say, Ju88s, 109s, 190s etc.

110 in OP and magazine article went to Vultee Aircraft for analysis.

Rod.