Can anyone tell me what these antennae,on this Ju 388,if thats what they were, were for?
spikey nose
Makes the plane look very menacing!
I believe a Heinkel had them too.
By: GASML - 13th October 2005 at 16:55
Just found a copy of Wings on My Sleeve via www.abebooks.com, if anyone else is looking.
By: macky42 - 13th October 2005 at 16:51
Thinks…isn’t it about time someone persuaded Eric to put his memories into print (heavy hint to Mr Ellis!)
“Wings of the Weird and Wonderful” two volumes I think about various oddballs he flew.
By: GASML - 13th October 2005 at 16:41
Thanks Mark 12,
Sadly it appears to be out of print at the moment, but I’ll get searching………..
By: Mark12 - 13th October 2005 at 16:34
If you ever get the chance Larry66, to go to a talk given by Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RN, take it with both hands. He was one of the test pilots who had to fly and evaluate these things at the end of the war, and some of his comments will put your hair firmly on end!
Thinks…isn’t it about time someone persuaded Eric to put his memories into print (heavy hint to Mr Ellis!)
By: GASML - 13th October 2005 at 15:54
If you ever get the chance Larry66, to go to a talk given by Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RN, take it with both hands. He was one of the test pilots who had to fly and evaluate these things at the end of the war, and some of his comments will put your hair firmly on end!
Thinks…isn’t it about time someone persuaded Eric to put his memories into print (heavy hint to Mr Ellis!)
By: Larry66 - 13th October 2005 at 11:32
Heres a pic of a Heinkel 219 A7/R2: Stab 1/NJG-1, Munster June 1944.
Weird looking thing!
By: James D - 12th October 2005 at 08:41
Nicknamed a “Hirschgeweihe” (sp!) or “stags antlers”.
By: Larry66 - 11th October 2005 at 21:41
Thanks for the info, very interesting!
By: one0nine - 11th October 2005 at 21:19
Those are antennae for the SN-2 Liechtenstein radar apparatus. Earlier models carried FuG 202 and FuG 212 that had what looked like a bedspring on the front of the aircraft; these dipoles were a significant improvement on that technology. The FuG 240 Berlin centimetric set, using a dish instead of dipoles, was experimentally installed in a few Ju 88G-6s at the end of the war, and would have been a standard fit for the Ju 388 nightfighters, had the war continued. Thankfully, it never got to that point; RAF losses would have skyrocketed as no jamming technology had yet been developed to combat that set.
Lynn
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