Ha ha, you are both on the right track, Student Pilot with a good description, John with half a name, so who would like to towel it off?

Been out all day,,,how about a Scheibe L-Spatz-55? If not, then I’m stumped (gliders not being my forte).:(

Alan

Peter,

Envious – must have been great. From registration assume owner is also the restorer.

Alan

I have four books on the go at present:

Prague in Danger – The years of German Occupation 1939 – 1945

Cold War Hot Science – Applied Research in Britain’s Laboratories 1945 – 1990

German Air Attache – The Thrilling Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel

Besatzer – Die Russen in Deutschland 1945 – 1994 (since the author – Silke Satjukow – hails from Weimar, there’s much concerning the bases and HQ in and around that city, some 3 hours down the road from here…)

cheers
b_d

Same photo is at http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/schmeidler_sn-1.php

Here: http://www.histaviation.com/Schmeidler_SN-2.html it is referred to as the SN-2, as Nowarra did, although the serial seems to be the same one as in the photo.

Prof. Werner Schneider also studied and wrote papers on human muscular flight, and wave propellers. Received the Carl-Friedrich-Gauss-Medal in 1958 when at TU Berlin. Born 7 June 1890, died 1 April 1959. 2 sons killed in the war, one in Russia, the other in Italy

cheers
Alan

AA722 Vb 2037 CHA M45 FF 3-9-41 5MU 7-9-41 234S ‘AZ-B’ 13-9-41 ASTH 20-11-41 Missing from escort mission off Belgian coast 12-2-42

b_d:)

Joglo,

It’s a Fiat, si? A G.55 Centauro?

Alan

Alan, Hi,
If you Google ‘HB778 + Fortress’ you’ll get what they know. Now just what the Ministry of Supply was doing with an RAF Fortress at RAE Farnbough in 1947 I have no idea! Presumably NPC Duties – where NPC = Nefarious Purposes Committee!!!!!!!!!!!
HTH
Resmoroh

Many thanks, but I sort of found the answer myself! If I had studied Pete Cooper’s excellent book ‘Farnborough – 100 Years of British Aviation’ a little better, I would have seen that there is a photo of HB778 on p. 92 with the caption: ‘The B-17G Fortress III HB778 arrived at Farnborough during March 1945 and was operated by WE Flight and, later, SME Flight. It served at Farnborough for the next seven years, undertaking a variety of trials, which included combustion heaters that were being researched when this photograph was taken in September 1946. It was returned to the US 3rd Air Force in September 1952.’

What threw me a little is that the lists of RAE Flights in the back of the book jump from those in 1940 to those in 1950, a rather large gap for such an important period, and one must read in the main body of the book to gather what may have been on strength at the end of the war.

In the chapter 1945 to 1954 a total of 9 B-17s are listed as having come to Farnborough for various tasks, not including HB778.

Apols for having jumped onto the wrong thread!

brgds
Alan