The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) has the takeoff dolly from a Messerschmitt Me-163 in their Structures Faculty.
Thanks for that Ken.. but I did say airframes and not bits and pieces… as can be seen via the links below, there are other larger artefacts on display in that part of the world π
Unless there are airframes yet to be discovered, none of the war booty captured by the former Soviet Union survives today. The website linked below is as good as any available on what can be found around the world:
…and my thanks to DCK, Brian (PenPusher) and all the other regular posters here for their sterling work in keeping us updated with what’s going on at Dux… π
My pleasure & glad to help Charles. I don’t really have much of an interest in these data-plates, but we have a sub-section on the LEMB which discusses them and I’m sure the small band of members there would like to see it. Perhaps you can either post an image here or email it to me? If you click on my name above, you should have an option to email me… if not, drop me a PM here π
This is what we/Barry Rosch has in his “work in progress” Luftwaffe Database:
Ju88A-5, WNr.6239 – Stkz KB+SN – coded L1+CM (white C) of 4./ LG1 – 100% loss near Sidi BarrΔni, Egypt on 30-Nov-41 during a mission to Sidi BarrΔni. Lost, cause unknown. Ofw.Max Haun pilot returned WIA, 1 KIA, 2 MIA. [source: Gen.Qu.6.Abt. (mfm #4)-Vol.7]
The same list includes that this example was built by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke GmbH at Oranienburg circa Nov’40.
I’ve always wanted to build one of Tamiya’s larger scale Luftwaffe types but have never had the nerve to give one ago. I just don’t have the patience to do their kits the justice I have always thought they deserved. I can also remember their catalogues doing the lend rounds at school and being treated with a reverence normally reserved for material of a far less salubrious nature :diablo:
I think mine was a 1/72nd Bolton Paul Defiant NF1 circa the mid-1970’s, built on a small table in the back garden during a gloriously warm summers day… and an absolute doddle to paint too in its all-black scheme…
Quite a few of the two-tone Matchbox Luftwaffe types after that although I could never quite fathom how some of the colours they used were in any way representative of actual schemes…
I agree T-21, not only does his genuine passion for the subject shine though, he has a dry wit that always tickles my funny bone. I’m sure the kids who passed the rude comment about James when they found the glider on Llundy confused him with that lumbering oaf Clarkson. :diablo:
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