Looks like a Hoplite on steroids

Question: Is this the same as a “Galland” Hood?

Phantom11,
I don’t know who you are,
However,
I’ve watched your threads over recent times on many issues and am surprised that you are are still of a comparitively tender age.
What pulls me up is your maturity and humanity in considering cases such as this.
You have a lot to offer ,
good on You,
Keep it up!

Its just Telephoto Foreshortering.

We also have them here in some profusion in the Joberg area.
They also tend to be carrying firearms…..

From memory amongst many others , “Oscar” Wilde (later Lightnings) and Mack Kemp (then went on to run the Black Bull in Fulham in the 60’s ). Peter Latham (the Boss later OIC Boscombe) about then (if not Roger Topp). Plus a young Hoppy Granville -White (later Harriers) as well IIRC.
Chris Wren did a cartoon with them all on in his annual “Farnborough “montage, which has since been published many times.
Great days – with a squadron that was also operational.

There does exist a photo of a JU87 flying sans wheels – remarkably the machine pulled out too low and hit the sea yet somehow the pilot managed to keep the thing flying despite ripping off both u/c legs. I wonder if this is the same machine and incident?

I don’t think so in this instance. It may be that you are referring to a fairly well known air- to-air image that is part of another confused saga , including some fakery and mix-ups with the jettisonable u/c of the naval Ju 87.
The Malta reports were from AAA crews and ground observers.
I think that the culprit may have been the Breda 201 ( see enclosed) on operational evaluation ,though I am not aware of any documentation to further support this hypothesis.

Please…
We all know that ALL German bombers of WWII had to have the dive-bombing capability (one of the reasons they never got any decent heavy bomber).
But were Ju88s used by any of the StukaGeschwader? And if you encountered a Ju88 in the air how would you be able to tell if it is on a dive-bombing, level bobming or a heavy fighter mission?
Anyway, ‘Stuka’ was used by Allied pilots in reference to the Ju87 not because they chose it as an appropriate nickname for the aeroplane, but because that was what it was called in official German publications, and also in official Allied recognition publications.

JDK has started this thread to discuss the myths about nicknames apparently given to one’s enemy’s aircraft. I have asked my question because I was interested if there were any non-mythical nicknames of this kind. We can discuss the ‘Stuka’ (or ‘Ja-Bo’ of the same kind), but the point is that there don’t seem to be many others around. Obviously air crews gave a lot of informal nicknames to their own aircraft, but it seems this did not apply to their opponents.

Please check the history of the Henschel 123 and compare it to your earlier sweeping statement.